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Shanty town over Eastern Promenade, July 1909

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1909 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Hallowell Steam and Boom Co., Hallowell, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Hubbard Free Library Date: circa 1895 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print

Checking Shanty, Presumpscot Street (rear), Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Canadian National Railroad Use: Checking Shanty

Hose Shanty, Thompsons Point, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: The Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad Use: Hose Shanty

Music in Maine - Music in Maine

"Lumberjack work chants and sailor shanties differ from operas sung by 19th century Maine divas. Yet they are all uniquely Maine sounds."

Music in Maine - Community Music

"In Maine, Sea shanties sung by sailors develop slow and fast structures depending on the task, from a few pulls on a rope to more detailed rigging of…"

Lincoln, Maine - Lower Main Street looking north, Lincoln, ca. 1948

"The small building is the Shanty Restaurant with Sadie's Lunch next to it. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment

"… of a score or two of little wood and canvas shanties, in which are sold a great variety of aboriginal trinkets, skins of seal and deer, baskets of…"

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