Keywords: Hard labor
Item 6127
Stonecutters, Deer Isle, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Deer Isle Media: Photographic print
Item 6128
Granite industry, Deer Isle, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Deer Isle Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine
As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.
Exhibit
From French Canadians to Franco-Americans
French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.
Site Page
"… to difficulties which no other part of the State labors under; on the one hand harassed by the British and commanded to bear a part in the…"
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 4 of 4
"… Historic McCurdy’s understand the process and the hard work involved. Also left behind was example of an “improved” item, a wheeled cart."
Story
Being a woman Union member was a challenge in the paper mill
by Cindy Bennett
I worked in the paper mills and for the Union during the 1987 strike.
Story
Growing up on a potato and dairy farm
by Paula Woodworth
Life growing up and working on a potato and dairy farm was hard work but fun in Aroostook County.
