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Lubec, Maine - Team Members

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"… issue was published on July 5th), ““One of the features of the day was a Living Flag with 225 children on a specially built stand on Monument Lot.”…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… Harbor Library The theatre featured silent-film movies with live accompaniment on a $25,000 Robert Morgan 4-manual organ."

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… what exactly was going on even using the Zoom feature. Perhaps lids were being pressed onto the filled cans waiting on trays on one side of each…"

Historic Hallowell - The Tiger and the Lion

"… parade was in the same year that the Tiger was featured in a celebration on July 27th through the 29th."

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"… section of this website.”) “The Maine Experience, Episode 103” a Maine Public Television program produced a 10-minute feature on Malaga in 2010."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"… in athletics, lectures, and movies, and initially featured a bowling alley in its basement. It is now known as “The Greater Rumford Community…"

Lubec, Maine - A Signature Quilt

"The late 19th Century quilt features squares autographed by women bearing names including Case, Calkins, Kelley, Woodward, Guptill, and Small...all…"

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

"… of research and made numerous trips to photograph features of the area.” With his oft-present measuring wheel Avery explored the route."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… capacious boundaries lie a number of interesting features: Abbot-Downing Concord Stagecoach, ca."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …next came the artists and rusticators.

"Hoping that the “cool waters of Eden” might invigorate body and soul, vacationers, referred to as rusticators, soon followed the artists."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"… 1890s in Lubec recorded in words the traditional features. A folk vocabulary of the industry emerges."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Granite and Ice Industries

"… Island was loaded directly onto boats in the deep water of Somes Sound and shipped to cities along the Atlantic Coast.Mount Desert Island…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Student Narrative of MDI History

"… being lost on a little rock on a level with the water, which made an opening in our barque near the keel."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"… he yearned for the breath of freedom on open water, where he could feel the pulse of nature without having to explain it to anyone." –Donna Loring…"

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"This log hauler featured a continuous track. There were known to be about 83 Lombard Log Haulers built by 1917."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"Running water was a seasonal affair through above-ground pipes; in the winter one needed to fetch fresh water by taking buckets down to the brook…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"were always camping around the fresh water ponds…. They made beautiful baskets and did beautiful bead work.” ...next came the artists and rusticators."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… so at first the mail carrier had to ford the waters at the Narrows or ride Captain Thompson's ferry."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"Travel around the island was by water or rickety “buckboard” carriages on rough, bumpy, steep buckboard roads."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"1905 At Somesville, the presence of flowing water meant that mills, such as this lumber mill, could be sited there."

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

"… import-export business that thrived in coastal waters off Mount Desert Island. Their story illustrates how one family works to become embedded in…"

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

"… camped near a narrow stretch of shallow coastal water where they built a weir, or sihtomuhkakon. At low tide, the wooden fence hinders the passage…"

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

"… Maine, the best Indian guide in the Schoodic waters. Two nice canoes and good accommodations for six persons."