Keywords: black ash
Item 67660
Black ash landfill, Yarmouth, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Yarmouth Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Yarmouth Media: Photographic print
Item 135793
Fancy basket by Hilary Browne, 2017
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2017 Location: Old Town Media: Black ash, sweetgrass
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These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
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Yarmouth's "Third Falls" provided the perfect location for papermaking -- and, soon, for producing soda pulp for making paper. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, Yarmouth was an international leader in soda pulp production.
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Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit
"… Pulp and Paper and began to manufacture “black ash” or sodium carbonate pulp. From 1899 to 1908, the mill built its reputation on the manufacturing…"
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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
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Wikpiyik: The Basket Tree
by Darren Ranco
Countering the Emerald Ash Borer with Wabanaki Ecological Knowledge
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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.