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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 2 of 2

"Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s The Rumford High team of 1975 was a very young team, as they started three sophomores, but still finished…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 1 of 2

"Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s Text By: Matt Kaubris Images provided by: Rumford Area Historical Society Rumford High School was built in…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Bangor and Aroostook GP-38, Presque Isle, 1991

"… engine sports the paint scheme developed in the 1970s. Note the white lines and numbers that were added to an earlier test scheme."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Loading sugar beets, Aroostook County, ca. 1975

"In the 1970s, potato farmers in Aroostook County grew sugar beets as a rotation crop with potatoes. While a promising concept, scheduling problems…"

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

"1975Maine Historical Society The present 1970s group is rounded out with three garments showing the influence of leading designers, and one with the…"

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

"… 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 softball team."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Changing Times

"… the war, and most especially during the 1960s and 1970s, that Hampden became a suburb of Bangor. Today there are only a handful of descendents of…"

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

"One problem they had with cars in the 1970s is that the windshields and leather seats would crack and break."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 6 of 13

"1910Presque Isle Historical Society Up until the 1970s when farms became more automated, farmers in Aroostook County used barrels to move potatoes…"

Guilford, Maine - MANUFACTURING - Page 2 of 2

"Nothing major happened to the mill until the 1970s. New Addition to Guilford Woolen Mill, ca. 1930Guilford Historical Society Interface Fabrics…"

Leeds Historical Society

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Surry by the Bay - Late Twentieth Century

"During the 1960s and 1970s, Ellsworth's commercial development provided employment opportunities for many of its Surry neighbors."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Caring For Our Families and Friends

"… of payment to the town’s nurses stops in the late 1970s. Irene Kent served as town nurse from 1951 until 1957 and again from 1967 until 1972."

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

"In later years, it was used as a museum. In the 1970s, the hall housed the 'Coffee Shop," a place for teens to hang out."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Eureka Hall, Stockholm

"In the 1970s the top story was torn down and we have our current building form. Eureka Hall, July 2006New Sweden Historical Society In the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 2 of 3

"There was a terrible hurricane in the 1970s that knocked down trees. The snow banks would reach as high as the telephone wires."

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

"… Historical Society During the 1940s through the 1970s, the world bypassed Thomaston and the area, sparing the town from redevelopment projects…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Running the Town

"By the time the 1970s came around, women’s names regularly appeared on lists of people serving in town positions."

Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 2 of 2

"… gown and others by Jessie Franklin Turner; and a 1970s Geoffrey Beene evening dress in the MHS collection speak of particular individuals, and a…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 1 of 3

"Crimplene became synonymous with 1960s and 1970s fashions. Two Crimplene examples in the collection were likely conservative special occasion dresses."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 3 of 4

"In the 1970s, to make clear they did not want a 'nation within a nation,' leaders across all political spectrums ran on platforms decrying, much like…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 2 of 3

"The last barber left town in the mid-1970s. The pharmacy closed in 1989. By the village’s bicentennial, many of the people who worked year-round in…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"… and cream at the creamery in West Farmington until the 1970s. The rails were dismantled in 1982. Back to History of Farmington's Agriculture"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"… in the phrase, “tradition accommodates innovation.” At least two labor saving improvements were adopted in the early 1970s that need looking at."