Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"Koscuiszka's class can be viewed below: Ira Fish (bottom right) from The History of the Town of Lincoln by Dana Fellows X Emily Robinson…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Lobstering

"Two men in dories, Swan's Island, ca. 1930Swan's Island Historical Society More recent pictures of lobster fishing show the transformation of…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Salmon industry

"It would provide another fishing industry source in addition to the lobstering, scalloping, and shrimping already in place."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4

"There were the jobs of the “fireman:” selecting the right kinds of firewood, governing the level of the fires, and damping them with sawdust."

Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"Was everyone working in fishing or fish processing? S: Yes, in the factories, and at the can plant … and then, when they couldn’t do that, that’s why…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Sports

"Even though it was the height of the fishing season, team members willingly sacrificed part of their income (for lack of time to tend their lobster…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"… will serve to introduce what was done to the fish to transform them for the market. Part II is a Web-based “museum” of the tools and implements…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… in Lubec – produced 50 to 60 thousand boxes of fish annually. Became national leader in smoked herring production into 1880s 1824 • Solomon Cushing…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"… were turned into tasty ready-to-eat smoked fish. There was Rosemary Ranck, who at some point in 1975, walked into McCurdy’s."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"He claimed all rights to fishing and "fowling" and apportioned land to tenants from whom he collected fees and rents."

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… of the skilled work: “The cutter takes several fish in the left hand at once and, with a large knife in the right, cuts off the heads one at a…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Fish and clams were plentiful, as well as wild duck. Wildlife included fox and mink. Deer arrived in the 1930s and are now abundant."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Women's Firsts

"… firsts have been overlooked in the era of women’s rights and not recorded for posterity as such because these women were doing everyday things that…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… a specific section of the beach to get just the right size material that was specified for the concrete mix."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Ocean View Hotel

"And right next door to where that was, there was—Chetwynds have got that little house now, used to be bigger."

Lubec, Maine - A Signature Quilt

"Standing are (left to right) Wealthy Ellen Wormell Leavitt, (Betsey Leavitt Josselyn’s great-great-great grandmother) and Mary Elizabeth Wormell…"

Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 2 of 2

"… save my grandmother then I wouldn’t he here right now. My grandmother used to tell me this story. I didn’t know how bad it was until now."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Minturn Schoolhouse

"… recalls: "Yep, and ‘course the stuff used to run right down the rocks and everything and in the wintertime we’d slide down it."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Summer Pleasures

"… Island Historical Society This picture on the right is of Normie Burns taking islanders out for a cruise and dinner or lunch in Stonington or Isle…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Bonnie and Donnie Staples' house

"Then you went right to the counter and except for what few canned goods there was on the side towards the road you had to ask for everything you…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Winter Fun

"… kids build something when the snow was just right for sticking together. These two imaginative kids built a snow horse to take them where they…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"Blaine. At the extreme right of the school photo note the roof corner of Columbian Hall, which appears in the righthand photo also richly decorated."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"And right here I had the Joyce family." Swan’s Islanders learned to cope with many changes in the years between the steamboat and the ferry."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"… the assassination of President Kennedy; the civil rights movement; the equal rights movement for women; Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon; and the…"