Keywords: wood pilings
Item 75146
Pulp wood moving from pond to wood pile, Brewer, ca. 1950, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Maine Folklife Center, Univ. of Maine Date: circa 1950 Location: Brewer Media: Photographic print
Item 101903
Remains of Westport to Woolwich Bridge, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: circa 1930 Location: Westport Island Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
Exhibit
George F. Shepley: Lawyer, Soldier, Administrator
George F. Shepley of Portland had achieved renown as a lawyer and as U.S. Attorney for Maine when, at age 42 he formed the 12th Maine Infantry and went off to war. Shepley became military governor of Louisiana early in 1862 and remained in the military for the duration of the war.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Wood pile, 130 Center St., Bangor, ca. 1864
"Wood pile, 130 Center St., Bangor, ca. 1864 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description John Martin…"
Site Page
Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons
"She piled all her findings in a simple shopping bag. Russell Douglass X Fifty years later, the bag was given to the Hampden Historical Society…"
Story
Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall
Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.
Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life
