Keywords: Pine River
Item 23082
Pine log drive on Machias River, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Ambajejus Boom House Museum Date: circa 1950 Media: Photographic print
Item 13334
Old Pine on East Hastings Brook, 1892
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1892-06-08 Location: Merrill Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
The Barns of the St. John River Valley: Maine's Crowning Jewels
Maine's St. John River Valley boasts a unique architectural landscape. A number of historical factors led to the proliferation of a local architectural style, the Madawaska twin barn, as well as a number of building techniques rarely seen elsewhere. Today, these are in danger of being lost to time.
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.
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World
"Maine's white pine, an ideal wood with many uses was used for masts for ships, lobster traps, and lumber for houses."
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War
"… sunken eyes, blackened countenances from pitch pine smoke, rags, and disease, the men look sickening."
Story
A New Beginning for Wabanaki Land Relationships
by John Banks
Wabanaki leadership in land stewardship
Story
Catching live bait with Grandfather
by Randy Randall
We never bought live bait for fishing. Grandfather caught all the minnows and shiners we needed.
