Keywords: Throwing
Item 23715
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1925 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
Item 101387
Throwing nets, Monhegan, ca. 1947
Contributed by: Monhegan Museum Date: 1947 Location: Monhegan Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Silk Manufacturing in Westbrook
Cultivation of silkworms and manufacture of silk thread was touted as a new agricultural boon for Maine in the early 19th century. However, only small-scale silk production followed. In 1874, the Haskell Silk Co. of Westbrook changed that, importing raw silk, and producing silk machine twist threat, then fabrics, until its demise in 1930.
Exhibit
Anglo-Americans in northern New England sometimes interpreted their own anxieties about the Wilderness, their faith, and their conflicts with Native Americans as signs that the Devil and his handmaidens, witches, were active in their midst.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 4 of 5
"They would hide behind barrels and throw potatoes at each other. If they got caught they would get in trouble. Once one boy got hit in the eye."
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Annie Martin as zephyr, Bangor, 1866
"… zephyrs we, Swiftly through the air we bound, Throwing blossoms all around," as they threw flower petals into the air."
Story
Learning to fly and instructing cadets at West Point during WWII
by Vera Cleaves
West Point during World War II
Story
My Story of Trauma
by Anonymous (Maine Correction Center)
The process of being incarcerated is traumatic. This is my story.
