Maine Memory Network

Norcross Heritage Trust

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"Guiding Services for Sport Hunters Wabanaki guides with canoes, Bar Harbor, 1881Abbe Museum Many Wabanaki men at the Bar Harbor encampments…"

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

"Crosby. The Rangeley Region Sportsman and Guides Association is a very active group that advocates for local guides, habitat and wildlife…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About Us - Page 2 of 3

"Larissa Vigue Picard, Maine Memory's Community Partnership Coordinator for the three teams, has guided the teams' website development."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

"She lived in Phillips, wrote about and guided in the Rangeley region and is buried in the Strong Village Cemetery."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation

"Before motors were made the Maine guides had to row wooden boats and canoes a lot around the local ponds and lakes."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Loading ice, Presque Isle Stream, 1946

"Ice picks are used to guide ice chunks from the stream to a conveyor. The conveyor takes the ice to the ice storage building shown in the photograph."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Meet the Team

"… to the MCHP partnership in support of the guiding principles of life long learning. We invite you to learn more about each team partner by clicking…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - General Henry Knox Museum

"… a retirement home in Thomaston, the museum offers guided tours, programs, and classroom materials that educate about Knox and his life and times."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 3 of 4

"The Audubon Center offers a variety of guided and self-guided walks and canoe tours as well as canoe rentals, a nature trail and exhibits."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Canadian and Pacific Railroad

"Sources: Presque Isle Historical Society. “A Self-Guided Walking Tour of Historic Downtown Presque Isle, Maine”. Brochure. Presque Isle, 2007."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Perry Opera House

"Sources: Presque Isle Historical Society. A Self-Guided Walking Tour of Historic Downtown Presque Isle, Maine. Brochure. Presque Isle: Author, 2007."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment

"… also stopped by the encampment to hire Indian guides for canoe outings or sport-hunting, to place special orders for items such as personalized…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"Off stage, he was a hunter, guide, medicine man, and tribal leader. Clever in the marketplace, he boosted sales of Wabanaki relics and crafts by…"

Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"The Maine club’s collection includes all editions for the Guide which he authored from 1935 to 1952."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Olof Nylander, 1864-1943

"… to do this same type of work or to act as a guide. Outside Nylander Museum X Nylander was awarded an Honorary Master of Science degree in 1938…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"… some began to market themselves as native tour guides and Indian entertainers, performing medicine shows and traditional song and dance, selling…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Site Overview

"… the narrative, for the sake of convenience this guide is organized by decade, as is most often the case in fashion studies."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"-Sherman’s Bar Harbor Guide, 1890 Nature’s Pleasures Once unpacked and settled in, rusticators faced an array of invigorating options: Clamber up a…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1940 to Present Day

"… locations throughout the town, to offer a self-guided tour of a well-preserved historic nineteenth- century village."

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 2 of 2

"… railroads, A vignette of local history and self-guided tour. Bangor, Galen Cole Family Foundation, 1992. Print. Curran, Mary H. comp."

Patten Free Library

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Friends of Wood Island Light

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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

"In 1853 the White Mountain guide Joseph A. Hall proposed to Abner Lowell, a Portland jeweler and mountain enthusiast, a plan for a carriage road to…"