Keywords: mud season
Item 7522
Good Will boy on stilts, Fairfield, ca. 1915
Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1915 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print
Item 16345
Model T Fords, Skowhegan, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1920 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Student Exhibit: Somerset Railroad
The Somerset Railroad was completed in 1872. It started out as a dream to link the Maine Coast with Canadian businesses to the north. It ran from the North Woods around Moosehead Lake down to Southern Maine and back again for 56 years.
Exhibit
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4
"… so the digger must bend at the waist often in mud to the knees to dig through the tidal mud flats for clams."
Site Page
Skowhegan Community History - Farming in the Skowhegan Area
"In mud season it was particularly difficult. harvesting wheatSkowhegan History House As the 1800s went on, the railroad opened up the Midwest…"
Story
Hooch Mum and my Vietnam service
by Jim Barrows
A poem about being a medic, saving Vietnamese people and babies. Sometimes we trusted too much.
Story
My father's world - the old farm in Richmond, Maine
by Donald C. Cunningham
A story about my father and our family.
