Keywords: salt marsh
Item 29358
Marsh Staddle, Scarborough, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Scarborough Media: Postcard
Item 33690
Dr. Robert Southgate, ca. 1830
Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: circa 1830 Location: Scarborough Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections
Explore topics around climate change by reuniting collections from one of the nation's earliest natural history museums, the Portland Society of Natural History. The exhibition focuses on how museums collect, and the role of humans in creating changes in society, climate, and biodiversity.
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4
"Click to view Salt Marsh Tools Salt hay continued to be important to the people of Scarborough well into the 1800s, as it became a source of income…"
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 1 of 4
"… grasses (known variously as cordgrass, salt hay, marsh grass, or salt meadow grass) convert the energy of the sun into usable food for the many…"
Story
Welimahskil: Sweet grass
by Suzanne Greenlaw
Weaving Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and western science around Sweetgrass
Story
What does a warming climate mean for Maine?
by David Reidmiller
Climate change affects all aspects of life. What does this mean for Maine?
