Maine Memory Network

Bread-making recollection, Monticello, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1930 Location: Monticello Media: MP3

Umbazooksus & Beyond

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.

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… the menu consisted largely of instant flavored oatmeal, Cup o' Soup, and Tang instant breakfast drink, or powdered hot cocoa."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Aroostook Potato Harvest: Perspective of a Six Year Old
by Phyllis A. Blackstone

A child's memory of potato harvest in the 1950s