Keywords: woods crew
Item 16122
Delmont Emerson woods crew, Island Falls, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Island Falls Media: Photographic print
Item 16126
Delmont Emerson's woods crew, Island Falls, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Island Falls 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
Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2
"… because it could be handled with a smaller crew and could contain more cargo. This vessel had a brief life, for it was wrecked in June 1903 only…"
Site Page
Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive
"They worked in crews with four or five men. In the crew there were two choppers, some to tend to the sled and horses (called a teamster), and someone…"
Story
The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona
Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.
Story
My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne
Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima
