Keywords: Outdoor games
Item 104023
Retreat on Little Diamond Island, Portland, ca. 1952
Contributed by: Northern Light Mercy Hospital Date: 1952 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 104715
Two men competing in a log-rolling contest at Maranacook Lake, 1935
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1935 Media: Glass negative
Exhibit
Maine's ample woods historically provided numerous game animals and birds for hunters seeking food, fur, or hides. The promotion of hunting as tourism and concerns about conservation toward the end of the nineteenth century changed the nature of hunting in Maine.
Exhibit
John Dunn, 19th Century Sportsman
John Warner Grigg Dunn was an accomplished amateur photographer, hunter, fisherman and lover of nature. On his trips to Ragged Lake and environs, he became an early innovator among amateur wildlife photographers. His photography left us with a unique record of the Moosehead Lake region in the late nineteenth century.
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake
"The principal game fish are the landlocked salmon, the lake trout, and the chain pickerel. The water of Porter Lake is cold."
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation
"There used to be a lot of big game, with deer in the 300-pound range. That changed with no rules and regulations and a lot of poachers."
Story
Growing up DownEast
by Darrin MC Mclellan
Stories of growing up Downeast
Story
Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall
Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.
Lesson Plan
Grade Level: 3-5
Content Area: Health Education & Physical Education, Social Studies
This lesson plan will introduce students to myriad communities in Maine, past and present, through the universal lens of sports and group activities. Students will explore and understand the history of many of Maine’s recreational pastimes, what makes Maine the ideal location for some outdoor sports, and how communities have come together through team activities throughout Maine’s history.
