Maine Memory Network

Blue Hill, Maine - Buggy Ride to South Blue Hill, 1907

"Buggy Ride to South Blue Hill, 1907 Contributed by Blue Hill Public Library Description Rusticators on a summer ride to South Blue Hill in…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 3 of 3

"If one had money, you could buy and ride a motorcycle to the hospital. When my mother wasn’t working, she enjoyed riding the buffalos she tended."

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

"1960Swan's Island Historical Society A bike ride to get together with friends was common place. If a car was available, a ride around the island was…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"… Trusses on Skyline Riding Arena X The indoor riding arena, with its curved, laminated wood trusses, was completed around 1959 and allowed…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 3 of 4

"… in high school her dad drove the bus so she would ride his bus for a little ways before an Ashland bus would pick her up from there."

John Martin: Expert Observer - First electric railroad car in Bangor, 1889

"… they were all day & evening chiefly by strangers riding for fun and sake of saying they had – had a ride in a car propeled by no visible power."…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 4 of 13

"The digger shown here required a person to ride on the digger to adjust the front of the digger so that it will cut into the row at the right height."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Today

"… Historical Society Today Thomaston continues to ride on the cutting edge of boatbuilding technology. A continuance of the former Charles A."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Welcome to Swan's Island!

"… Coat Harbor X Swan's Island, a six mile ferry ride out of Bass Harbor in Mount Desert Island, is the current home of between 300 and 350 year…"

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"In recent years, Smokey’s Greater Shows has managed the Fair's entire stock of rides, as it does for other Maine fairs."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Northern Maine Fair Memories - Page 1 of 3

"Her favorite and only ride that she would go on was the Ferris Wheel because the other rides were too fast and would make her sick."

Historic Hallowell - The "World of Mirth" Carnival in Hallowell

"… lit on fire, and other old-fashioned, carnival rides such as a carousel and ferris wheel. The spectacle of people on fire included their diving…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ferries

"Harvey. The ferry ride only cost fifteen cents. People rode the ferries to avoid driving all the way down to Howland to cross via their bridge."

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

"Island teams were formed to ride the donkeys. The community would come to cheer the local teams. It was all great fun (not sure the donkeys would…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Franklin County Agricultural Fair

"Amusement rides have been added and thousands of people from Franklin County attend each year. Back to Farmington's History of Agriculture"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 2 of 3

"… if I wasn’t there and say, “Would you give James a ride back?” And so I’d come down, get him and bring him back to the nursing home in Van Buren."

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

"Two children riding a snow horse, Swan's Island, ca. 1945Swan's Island Historical Society Always an example of winter fun was having kids build…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - 1925 National Governors' Association Convention

"Participants were treated to a ride in the Navy Airship Shenandoah, which took them from Bar Harbor to Passamaquoddy Bay, to Mt."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Maine Railroads

"High school students would ride the passenger train to attend high school in nearby Caribou. The booming businesses in Stockholm relied on the train…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Depression, War, and Fire

"… and motels and small inns, built in time to ride a wave of economic prosperity and the rise of the American car culture."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 3 of 6

"… bustled with leisure activities such as carriage rides, day hikes, evening lectures, small gatherings for tea and family celebrations, calling on…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor

"From there it was just a short ride to Bar Harbor by steamboat or canoe. Continue to Rusticators on the Rise"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 3 of 3

"1910 Today one can still hitch ride on the Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad at their museum in downtown Phillips."