Keywords: Stringed
Item 17830
Contributed by: New Sweden Historical Society Date: circa 1870 Location: New Sweden; Kronebergelan Media: Wood
Item 148508
Mary Curran Leighton and musicians, Portland, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Post office clerks began collecting strong red, white, and blue string, rolling it onto a ball and passing it on to the next post office to express their support for the Union effort in the Civil War. Accompanying the ball was this paper scroll on which the clerks wrote messages and sometimes drew images.
Exhibit
Maine's corn canning industry, as illuminated by the career of George S. Jewett, prospered between 1850 and 1950.
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4
"For example, it was quite common to hear “dump the string” when the stern came between those two large trees on Stratton Island."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - WWI Impact on Farmington's Agriculture
"Wesley Pratt cannery put up over 7,000 cases of string beans in 1918 and Burnham and Morrill who owned corn canneries, offered 5 cents per pound, a…"
Story
Choosing a Career in Country and Bluegrass Music
by Ken Brooks
How I became a country and bluegrass musician
Story
First night on the pulp pile at zero degrees, to mill foreman
by Arthur Benedetto
I worked my way up in International Paper, moving from the pick ax pile to a foreman on computers
