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My Maine Stories
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My Journey: Training Service Dogs in Prison
by Anonymous (Maine State Prison)
Inmates at Maine State Prison train dogs as service and companion animals. This is one story.
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Baxter State Park and Burton W. Howe
by Jason Howe
Formation of Baxter State Park and the involvement of Burton W. Howe of Patten
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Finding and cooking fiddleheads with my parents
by Brian J. Theriault
My father has been picking and eating fiddleheads almost all his life, Mom prepares and stores them
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From Naturalists to Environmentalists
by Andy Beahm
The beginnings of Maine Audubon in the Portland Society of Natural History
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Wabanaki-Greenland connections
by Jennifer Sapiel Neptune
Exploring cultural resiliency in this time of rapidly changing climate.
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Water is Music
by P Leone
Throughout her life water has played an important part
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Welimahskil: Sweet grass
by Suzanne Greenlaw
Weaving Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and western science around Sweetgrass
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Wikpiyik: The Basket Tree
by Darren Ranco
Countering the Emerald Ash Borer with Wabanaki Ecological Knowledge
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A case of mistaken animal identity
by Judy Loeven
The time my neighbor's dog Tyson got away, or so I thought.
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A Loon's World
by Norma Salway
Loons on Songo Pond
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A Splash of Water
by Marilyn Weymouth Seguin
Reminisce of a lifetime on Little Sebago Lake
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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.
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Catching live bait with Grandfather
by Randy Randall
We never bought live bait for fishing. Grandfather caught all the minnows and shiners we needed.
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Childhood Memories of Learning to Swim on Rangeley Lake
by Betty C.
Betty's two older sisters taught her how to swim on Rangeley Lake.
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Eating lower on the food chain
by Avery Yale Kamila
Animal agriculture's ties to climate change
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Growing up DownEast
by Darrin MC Mclellan
Stories of growing up Downeast
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Hand carrying water in Marshfield
by Dorothy Gardner
Ways of getting water in rural Maine. From fetching water from a stream to having a well.
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How Far is Deep Enough?
by Molly M.
Wading into Casco Bay after a hot and prickly afternoon on an island off Portland.
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How roses became a big part of my life
by Clarence Rhodes
Clarence Rhodes's experiences growing, exhibiting, and judging roses in Maine and around the world.
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In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood
An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.
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Lifelong Lepidopterist
by E. Christopher Livesay
Chris Livesay collects and studies butterflies.
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making light
by David Johansen
My relationship with Maine and how and why I make neon lights here.
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Minik Wallace 1891-1918
by Genevieve LeMoine, The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum
The life of Minik, an Inuit person from Greenland who grew up in New York City.
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My 41 year career in Maine paper mills
by Mike Luciano
Generations of paper workers, families, immigrants, jobs in the mill, labor strikes, and changes