Keywords: canoe paddle
Item 14436
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1890 Location: Houlton Media: Wood
Item 8995
Canoeing on the Kennebec, Skowhegan, ca. 1928
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1928 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
Exhibit
John Dunn, 19th Century Sportsman
John Warner Grigg Dunn was an accomplished amateur photographer, hunter, fisherman and lover of nature. On his trips to Ragged Lake and environs, he became an early innovator among amateur wildlife photographers. His photography left us with a unique record of the Moosehead Lake region in the late nineteenth century.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Canoe race, Kenduskeag Stream, Bangor, 1865
"He wrote that they paddled to Brewer and back "in 8 minutes a mile and a third or ten mile an hour." Stephen Stanislaus and Sebattis Saul paddled…"
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters
"… club aspired to having their own Indian-made paddle and birchbark canoe, and many turned to proven experts from the Indian encampment for…"
Story
Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick
A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman
Story
The Journey Home
by Gina Brooks
I am a Maliseet artist from the St. Mary’s First Nation, my work is about our connection to the land
