Keywords: Squash
Item 102681
Tomas Fortson, Brunswick, 2009
Courtesy of Jan Pieter Van Voorst Van Beest, an individual partner Date: 2009 Location: Brunswick Media: Digital photograph
Item 102477
Grinding corn, Franklin county, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Stanley Museum on deposit at Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Media: Lantern slide, hand colored
Item 75716
Assessor's Record, 99 State Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Frederick Hale Use: Squash & Handball Court
Exhibit
Blueberries to Potatoes: Farming in Maine
Not part of the American "farm belt," Maine nonetheless has been known over the years for a few agricultural items, especially blueberries, sweet corn, potatoes, apples, chickens and dairy products.
Exhibit
Maine's Untold Vegetarian History
Vegetarianism has deep roots in Maine and this first-of-its-kind exhibition explores this untold story.
Site Page
"They planted beans, corn, and squash and hunted deer and other wild game as well. Occasionally they warred with other tribes along their frontiers…"
Site Page
Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area
"… little food that would grow, including pumpkins, squash and a lot of corn. The Native Americans would make nets, weirs and spears to catch eels and…"
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
