Keywords: tree climbing
Item 66085
Tree climbing, Farmington, ca. 1917
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: circa 1917 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print
Item 149943
Normal School students, Farmington, 1923
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1923 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Putting Men to Work, Saving Trees
While many Mainers were averse to accepting federal relief money during the Great Depression of the 1930s, young men eagerly joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's most popular programs. The Maine Forest Service supervised the work of many of the camps.
Exhibit
The novelty of organized auto racing came to Maine in 1911 with a hill-climbing event in Poland and speed racing at Old Orchard Beach. Drivers and cars came from all over New England for these events.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Elmer Ellsworth Martin, Bangor, 1865
"… mother, Clara Cary Martin (1836-1902), stories; climbing a tree at center, and showing his father, John Martin (1823-1904), "what he and Junior…"
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway
"The road followed the perimeter of the marsh and climbed Cornshop Hill to enter Dunstan. It would take two days to simply walk from Scarborough to…"
Story
The Point
by Norma K. Salway
In the summer, on the eastern shore of Songo, kids dove from a leaning tree
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
