Keywords: Ice saw
Item 23128
Moving ice, Presque Isle Stream, 1963
Contributed by: Presque Isle Historical Society Date: 1963 Location: Presque Isle Media: Photographic print
Item 15994
Using an ice saw on Collins Pond, Caribou, ca. 1942
Contributed by: Caribou Public Library Date: circa 1942 Location: Caribou Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Student Exhibit: Ice Harvesting
Ice Harvesting was a big industry on the Kennebec River. Several million tons of ice could be harvested in a few weeks. In 1886 the Kennebec River topped the million ton on ice production.
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
Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting
"Forty-two ice houses like “Ice Mania”, covered the shores of the Kennebec River. Ice men are guiding ice blocks toward the steam-powered conveyor…"
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond
"You would insulate it with sawdust from the mills. That would go on until the ice house was full.” Weston's Ox TeamHubbard Free Library “In the…"
Story
Wabanaki-Greenland connections
by Jennifer Sapiel Neptune
Exploring cultural resiliency in this time of rapidly changing climate.
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
