Keywords: unemployed
Item 34559
Charles Littlefield, Topsham, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1870 Location: Portland; Topsham Media: Photographic print
Item 6246
Sidewalk work, Biddeford, ca. 1934
Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: circa 1934 Location: Biddeford Media: Silver gelatin print
Exhibit
Capturing Arts and Artists in the 1930s
Emmie Bailey Whitney of the Lewiston Journal Saturday Magazine and her husband, noted amateur photographer G. Herbert Whitney, captured in words and photographs the richness of Maine's arts scene during the Great Depression.
Exhibit
The Establishment of the Troy Town Forest
Seavey Piper, a selectman, farmer, landowner, and leader of the Town of Troy in the 1920s through the early 1950s helped establish a town forest on abandoned farm land in Troy. The exhibit details his work over ten years.
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1850 to 1870
"… huge service to his town by offering jobs for the unemployed. The Knox and Lincoln Railroad came through Thomaston in 1871 and purchased land…"
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House
"… less fortunate people through times of sickness, unemployment, or death. To visit their website, click the link below."
Story
Isolation!
by Leslie
Having only moved to Maine alone 8 months prior, had to freeze my life
Story
2020 Sheltering in Place Random Notes During COVID-19
by Phyllis Merriam, LCSW
Sheltering-in-Place personal experiences in mid-coast Maine (Rockland) during March and April 2020
