Keywords: Men In Canoes
Item 149985
Two men navigating their canoes on a shallow river in Washington County, ca. 1900
Courtesy of John Howard, an individual partner Date: circa 1900 Media: Film negative
Item 149953
A group of men standing with canoes and equipment at Meddybemps Lake, ca. 1900
Courtesy of John Howard, an individual partner Date: circa 1900 Location: Meddybemps Media: Film negative
Exhibit
Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
Exhibit
After the canoe, steamboats became the favored method of transportation on Moosehead Lake. They revolutionized movement of logs and helped promote tourism in the region.
Site Page
"… the salt-water environment, expertly handling canoes and hunting seal and porpoise. Swan’s Island may have attracted this tribe as a seasonal or…"
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…
"1850Abbe Museum With the Europeans came new diseases and colonial wars. After 150 years of these conflicts, barely 1,000 Wabanaki men, women, and…"
Story
I have thought about Vietnam almost every day for 48 years
by Ted Heselton
Working as a heavy equipment operator in Vietnam