Maine Memory Network

A sportsman seated in front of a log cabin, 1906

Courtesy of John Howard, an individual partner Date: 1906 Media: Film negative

A hunter seated in front of a log cabin, ca. 1906

Courtesy of John Howard, an individual partner Date: 1906 Media: Lantern slide, hand colored

Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador

"The Bowdoin Boys" -- some students and recent graduates -- traveled to Labrador in 1891 to collect artifacts, specimens, and to try to find Grand Falls, a waterfall deep in Labrador's interior.

Umbazooksus & Beyond

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.

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"Hunting wild game and trapping were also important jobs for daily survival. Berrying in the summer was an annually awaited event."

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick

A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman

Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall

Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.