Maine Memory Network

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

"… to lobstering, scalloping, and shrimping as the supply of fish such as cod, flounder, and halibut diminished."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… Society Island stores received regular supplies from the mainland, and as many as two operated in each village."

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

"Sheep would often be put on a boat and brought to one of the smaller outer islands for grazing. The independence of islanders to raise their own food…"

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

"Dunham's store sold a variety of food items such as the ice cream and candy that made it memorable to the younger islanders."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"… settlement, Swan’s Island was a source of food and materials for many Native Americans who used the island as a seasonal, and perhaps permanent…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

"… and to cultivate the land for their family’s food. Early fishing schooner, ca. 1870Swan's Island Historical Society With the best timber…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor During the 1940s

"During the war, flights regularly left Dow with supplies and personnel headed for Europe, Africa, and Asia."

Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March

"… bateaux held the men's guns, ammunition, food and supplies. Their first major obstacle was the Ticonic Falls."

Life on a Tidal River - The War Effort

"… the lights on the Thomas Hill Standpipe, which supplied the water for the city of Bangor, were extinguished, and the tower itself was camouflaged…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - WWI Impact on Farmington's Agriculture

"… had necessary roles in local agriculture and were supplying food and goods. Farmington men who received the Deferred Classification designation…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4

"… and clams from open areas generated a larger supply. When Thurlow Shellfish Company closed, Pine Point Seafood Distributors, Inc., which operated…"

Caribou Public Library

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"With the short supply of wool, women turned to silk. In March of 1918, the U.S. Food Administration endorsed “Farm Implement and Repair Week.” Every…"

Lubec, Maine - The Blizzard of '34 - Page 1 of 2

"and the Columbian Packing Co. had good supplies of coal, and wood on hand. Coal experienced no advance in price."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"Leavitt Brothers supplied Burnham & Morrill and the Soldiers’ Home in Togus. A December 1893 newspaper article stated that Leavitt Brothers shipped…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"… and small farm animals and supplemented food supplies from the wild lands that surrounded their farms."

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Historic Hallowell - Lineman's Journal

"We were under staffed, we needed even more supplies, and we had to be at five different places at once. There were more and more power failures."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War

"… lack of very clean drinking water and proper food supply, many people starved or died from disease. One prisoner named Michigan John Ransom wrote…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… for fur hats in Europe eliminated the winter food supply for the food foraging native people of northern Maine."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"… and visitors could shop for food and other supplies, fill a prescription at the pharmacy, watch a film at the theater and generally take care of…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"In Dark Harbor, Williams Brothers operated a large grocery store featuring fancy goods, (ie: caviar, goose liver, specially packed canned foods from…"

Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"… of the animals and men were killed, and food and supplies were lost in the cold, icy river. Just recently a new park was built on the island to…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"These businesses existed largely to supply food and transportation to the Asticou Inn’s summer guests."