Keywords: Unemployment
Item 149588
"Out of Work" sheet music cover, Bath, 1877
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1877 Location: Bath Media: Ink on paper
Item 94904
Portland Water District Douglass Street Meter Shop, Portland, 1933
Contributed by: Portland Water District Date: 1933 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Capturing Arts and Artists in the 1930s
Emmie Bailey Whitney of the Lewiston Journal Saturday Magazine and her husband, noted amateur photographer G. Herbert Whitney, captured in words and photographs the richness of Maine's arts scene during the Great Depression.
Exhibit
The Establishment of the Troy Town Forest
Seavey Piper, a selectman, farmer, landowner, and leader of the Town of Troy in the 1920s through the early 1950s helped establish a town forest on abandoned farm land in Troy. The exhibit details his work over ten years.
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1850 to 1870
"… huge service to his town by offering jobs for the unemployed. The Knox and Lincoln Railroad came through Thomaston in 1871 and purchased land…"
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House
"… less fortunate people through times of sickness, unemployment, or death. To visit their website, click the link below."
Story
Isolation!
by Leslie
Having only moved to Maine alone 8 months prior, had to freeze my life
Story
2020 Sheltering in Place Random Notes During COVID-19
by Phyllis Merriam, LCSW
Sheltering-in-Place personal experiences in mid-coast Maine (Rockland) during March and April 2020
