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West Quoddy Head Light Keepers Association

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Lubec, Maine - Links

"The West Quoddy Head Light Keepers Association enhances the experience and knowledge of community members and visitors to the Lighthouse and Visitor…"

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… Head by Ronald Pesha, West Quoddy Head Light Keepers Assoc., Inc. Images from the organization's collection Lighthouse, Sail Rock offshore X…"

Friends of Wood Island Light

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Fish weir, Ball Hill Cove, Hampden, ca. 1832

"Martin, who worked as an accountant and store keeper, wrote the journal and three scrapbooks so his wife and children would know more about his life…"

Museum at Portland Head

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 5 of 5

"… place names and language, which Wabanaki language keepers and scholars are using today, asserting agency over how the documents of displacement are…"

Historic Hallowell - Martha Ballard

"… the very act of recording her work, she became a keeper of vital records, a chronicler of the medical history of her town."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"… fine oil to sell to watchmakers and lighthouse keepers. Wabanakis harvested their own fish and sea mammals, but lard and flour usually came from…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 1 of 3

"Members also serve as Gate Keeper, Overseer, Steward, Chaplain, Assistant Steward, Lady Assistant Steward, Secretary, Treasurer, Lecturer and Master."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… for Thomas Harlow, a farmer and the appointed keeper of the village pound for some time. Judge Charles W."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… on information shared by Passamaquoddy knowledge keepers. This is outstandingly documented in the map of the interior canoe route between the St."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"Thomas Dexter was the first keeper 1810 • Committee chosen by people of Seward’s Neck to petition the legislature in Boston to be set off from Moose…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bass Park: A History of Fillies, Fame, and Fun

"The Bangor State Fair Race horses with keepers at Bass Park, Bangor, ca. 1915Bangor Public Library One of the most popular attractions in Bass…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Shipwrecks led to the construction of a lifesaving station at Carrying Place Cove in 1874. A log kept by the light keeper at West Quoddy Head…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"Green Acres with Keepers Lodge, Farmington, ca. 1890 This was Harold Titcomb's home in Farmington on Orchard Street. The house still stands."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"A keeper lived in the house to keep the lantern lit around the clock. The lighthouse was deactivated in 1935, when a separate electrical tower with a…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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