Keywords: Paddling
Item 14436
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1890 Location: Houlton Media: Wood
Item 149958
Two men paddling a canoe through rough water, ca. 1900
Courtesy of John Howard, an individual partner Date: circa 1900 Media: Film negative
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.
Exhibit
Passamaquoddy Indians from Washington County traveled to Portland in 1920 to take part in the Maine Centennial Exposition. They set up an "Indian Village" at Deering Oaks Park.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Canoe race, Kenduskeag Stream, Bangor, 1865
"He wrote that they paddled to Brewer and back "in 8 minutes a mile and a third or ten mile an hour." Stephen Stanislaus and Sebattis Saul paddled…"
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters
"… as well as serious training in the “fine art of paddling.” Most members this rusticators’ club aspired to having their own Indian-made paddle and…"
Story
A Loon's World
by Norma Salway
Loons on Songo Pond
Story
The Journey Home
by Gina Brooks
I am a Maliseet artist from the St. Mary’s First Nation, my work is about our connection to the land
