Maine Memory Network

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"… Middle School student Walking Tour of Historic Summer Street No neighborhood is more reminiscent of Hampden’s 19th century past than that of Summer…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"The Dark Harbor summer residents enjoyed the pleasures of the Tarratine Club, offering golf in the 1890s, yachting in the 1920s and tennis in the…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"… its waters, canoeing to the headwaters each summer, and living in villages farther up river each winter."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"… island's seagoing tradition had diminished, the summer yachting scene allowed many shipbuilders to continue on a smaller scale."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… relieved when the family arrived the following summer. The next significant event that occurred in this area we call Skowhegan was the great…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland Community Library

"Work was begun the summer of 1988 with help from summer work groups from the Mission at the Eastward."

Friendship Museum

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Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"Summer - In the summer the Abenakis would travel to the coast to clam, fish, and collect seafood. They would sometimes have big seafood feasts, where…"

Skowhegan Community History - Skowhegan: "A Place To Watch"

"… pulpwood logs, which were floated downstream all summer long. Skowhegan Island X However, the heavy logging use clogged the river and took a…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 2 of 3

"… even with winter homes "in town" and then summer cottages out at the Pool or towards Kennebunkport."

Surry Historical Society

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

"1935Mount Desert Island Historical Society The summer community bustled with leisure activities such as carriage rides, day hikes, evening lectures…"

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

"Usually there was a play shown in the summer as entertainment for the summer population. These performances utilized the stage of the Odd Fellows…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"But some also cite the largess of the summer community that supported local institutions: hospital, library, churches and schools."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Founding of Acadia National Park

"Lead by summer resident turned year-rounder George B. Dorr and summer residents Charles Eliot and John D."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Odd Fellows Hall

"… its use is largely restricted to the warmer summer months. There are breakfasts in the hall on Sundays, the theater group 'The Hockamock Players'…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Welcome to the town of Blue Hill!

"The community that has grown up at the foot of the mountain now encompasses a mix of people with many different backgrounds and a vibrant cultural…"

Palmyra Historical Society

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Byron Historical Society

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Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"… 1800’s and early 1900’s Parker Point was only a summer community and it remains much the same today, though there are considerably more year round…"

Fifth Maine Regiment Museum

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

"… were all about the Brooklyn Dodger's "boys of summer" the late 1970s and early 1980s on Swan's Island were the "golden years" for the Swan's Island…"

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

"… but would return to Saint Anthony's Cottage every summer. In the winter she stayed with friends in Lewiston."

Farmington Public Library

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