Maine Memory Network

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Bob's Bears

"Bob's Bears X The Day the Bears Bathed in Hampden by Bob Hawes Listen to Bob Hawes read the story..."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Capt. L. J. Morse, Co. A, Maine State Guard, Bangor, 1864

"… Sketch Book." He wrote, "The state guards wore a bear skin cap as represented. their coats most wholly red." View additional information about…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Ladies Blush apple, Bangor, 1889

"… year a loaded crop and in a few years ceased bearing and died, my children feasted on this tree all the days it bore." View additional information…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Soldier, Bangor, ca. 1860

"… in 1864, described the soldier as wearing "a bear skin cap a fine red broad cloth coat a pair of fine black broad cloth pants a fine cotton shirt…"

Historic Hallowell - Dr. John Hubbard

"… in 1989 diagonally across from the library that bears his family's name. The 16 by 20 foot office is entered on the National Register of Historic…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm In Hallowell

"… tonight Everyone wanted to help keep alive those who yelp. Loving and caring for those they don’t know. Living today, still bearing the snow."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Northeast Harbor: Rustic to Rusticators

"In 1790, a bounty was paid on bears, wildcats and wolves. The population of Mt. Desert increased quickly after the first settlers, and in 1768, ten…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Civil War

"… for the sick and elderly, raise children, and bear the awful news that too often came in the form of long casualty lists in the newspaper."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 1 of 3

"Mill wheel bearing, Saco, ca. 1840McArthur Public Library The first sawmill was built around 1853, and before the coming of Samuel Batchelder and…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - First balloon ascension, Bangor, 1857

"… struck an upper current and began to sail off bearing easterly." His 6-year-old daughter, Ada, commented, while the balloon was at its highest…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Gravenstein apple, Bangor, 1866

"… threw the strength to the sap in the top & made it bear prematurely." View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

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

"3- 26 2. “‘A Scratch with a Bear's Paw’: Anglo-Indian Land Deeds in Early Maine,” Ethnohistory 36:3 (Summer, 1989), pp. 235-256) 3. Richardson, H."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation

"Bear hunting was really popular, and sometimes each town would shoot close to 200 bear each hunting season."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"… avoided the confines of indoor work, but Theodore Bear Mitchell spent many summers working at the Malvern Hotel."

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 2 of 3

"Bear processing is $100 to $200 to kill depending on size. They also do elk processing but that information is not disclosed at this time."

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 1 of 3

"… with a red (madder) and blue (indigo) floral pattern. It bears a label, stating "1779. Worn by Miss Olive Gray, born in North Yarmouth, Maine.""

Historic Clothing Collection - 1970-1980 - Page 3 of 3

"The lower skirt inside seam bears a label marked "B Green Room," and includes the Beene signature cursive "B." The gown is associated with Cecile P."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"… eggs or a V-notch (indicating females capable of bearing eggs) are returned to the water. The trap is re-baited and reset until the next haul."

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"Bears and raccoons ate their corn so that was not a successful crop. Meat victuals were woodchuck, bear, deer and raccoons."

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

"As scholars like Rachel Bryant, Andrea Bear Nicholas, and Micah A. Pawling have argued about the Indigenous past in the cross-border region, and as…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… include beaver, snapping turtle, caribou, and bear. The Little Ice Age, between AD 1300 and 1850, likely had little effect on the food foraging…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Savage Family of Mount Desert

"… Brook where it flows into the ocean just north of Bear Island. Their children, including son John II in 1801, were born in Northeast Harbor."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood

"… his home and with it, came a street that still bears his name. And he supported education, presumably because he didn’t have a lot of formal…"

Lubec, Maine - A Signature Quilt

"… quilt features squares autographed by women bearing names including Case, Calkins, Kelley, Woodward, Guptill, and Small...all old-time Lubec…"