Keywords: Ragged Island
Item 20888
Stover's Cove and Islands, Harpswell, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1880 Location: Harpswell Media: Stereopticon slide
Item 25104
Beached whale on Ragged Island, 1927
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1927-02-23 Location: Harpswell 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
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
"… & Annie Wilson Men carrying a whale fin, Ragged Island, 1927Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Whaling was not a big industry in…"
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
