Keywords: Rural stores
Item 79079
Maurice Tasker Store, Stetson, ca. 1919
Contributed by: Stetson Historical Society Date: circa 1919 Location: Stetson Media: Photographic print
Item 11688
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1912 Location: Littleton Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Reading, Writing and 'Rithmetic: Brooklin Schools
When Brooklin, located on the Blue Hill Peninsula, was incorporated in 1849, there were ten school districts and nine one-room school houses. As the years went by, population changes affected the location and number of schools in the area. State requirements began to determine ways that student's education would be handled. Regardless, education of the Brooklin students always remained a high priority for the town.
Exhibit
Fashionable Maine: early twentieth century clothing
Maine residents kept pace with the dramatic shift in women’s dress that occurred during the short number of years preceding and immediately following World War I. The long restrictive skirts, stiff collars, body molding corsets and formal behavior of earlier decades quickly faded away and the new straight, dropped waist easy-to-wear clothing gave mobility and freedom of movement in tune with the young independent women of the casual, post-war jazz age generation.
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4
"… standards, late 1800s and even early 1900s rural life may have seemed harsh and austere, but life also was less hurried."
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4
"Rural Mail DeliveryStrong Historical Society This structure remains today as a private home in the center of town."
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.
Story
Harold's Garage, Rome Hollow, Maine
by Mimi C
Story about Harold Hawes, owner of Harold's garage and self-styled auctioneer in Rome Hollow, Maine