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Site Pages
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Historic Hallowell - Eastern Illustrating Company
"The exposed glass plate negatives were sent back to the "factory" in Belfast where they were processed, printed and sent back to the general stores…"
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Historic Hallowell - St. Matthew's Episcopal Church and the Hubbard Free Library
"… Sunday morning’s until they got the power turned back on. Written by Naomi Harrison Ice Storm, Hubbard Free Library, Hallowell, 1998Hubbard…"
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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ice Storm of 1998
"January 11,1998 •DAY 5. The power is coming back slowly but surely. January 12,1998 •DAY 6. Each day the power was getting back town by town."
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Historic Hallowell - Communication
"Telephones were quite pricey back when they were invented, that is why most people did not have them."
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"… streets yelling, "Joppa! Joppa!" to call the crew back to the ship. The tavern no longer exists and many of the houses have been razed in the past…"
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Historic Hallowell - The "World of Mirth" Carnival in Hallowell
"With all the fuss about bringing train transportation back, possibly carnivals coming by train may start again."
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Historic Hallowell - Ship Parts
"… ship to be built with the “technology” they had back then, it would have taken between seven to eleven years to be “water ready,” able to float and…"
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Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond
"Then we would unhitch and slide back down. You couldn’t do that with a truck!” Arthur Moore's first ice truckHubbard Free Library “We would…"
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Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Summary Notes
"… to see how fast they could turn all the power back on. They were using special lights to melt the ice on the telephone wires and they were putting…"
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Historic Hallowell - Maine Industrial School for Girls
"… and physical and moral training, they may be won back to ways of virtue and respectability, and fitted for positions of honorable self-support, and…"
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Historic Hallowell - The Fireman's Musters in Hallowell
"Most contests were between teams of firemen. Back when musters first started, women were never allowed to be firefighters or volunteers."
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Historic Hallowell - Historic Hallowell Resources and Links
"Travel back in time with John Hayward and see what early America was like. Hayward's New England Gazetteer of 1839 Hallowell, Maine…"
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Historic Hallowell - Timeline of Cyclone
"They used pieces of wood for fire and to rebuild the buildings that were damaged. The people of Hallowell were soon back on track."
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Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Works Cited Page
"Remal, Gary J. “Pole by pole, power comes back.” 13 Jan. 1998, Remal, Gary J. “Storm Edition: Day 5.” Kennebec Journal 13 Jan. 1998: N. pag."
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Historic Hallowell - Police and Fire Citations
"Bringing Back Train Travel To The U.S.. 19 July 2009. The Good Human. 14 Apr. 2011 <http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2009/07/19/bringing-back-t...>."
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Historic Hallowell - Lineman's Journal
"I was cold and my back hurt. We had been working nonstop. I heard that 12-15 generators had been from Bell Atlantic."
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Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2
"… and we realized that the heat wasn’t coming back on, we had to think about what kind of heat we could get."
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Historic Hallowell - Our Work and Our Team
"… Our Team The seeds of this effort can be traced back to the founders of our City, to the generous patrons who funded our library, built our City…"
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Historic Hallowell - Days 6 & 7
"The ice started melting and the power was coming back slowly town by town. Most of the state can go out side to start cleaning up the disaster."
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"… employees hostage until they turned his power back on. Louise Potter who spent nine days trying to run the Suburban Pines Motel in Windham without…"
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Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond ~ A Family Affair
"Then we would unhitch and slide back down. You couldn’t do that with a truck! In the spring when people couldn’t store their food in the cellar any…"
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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell History From a 7th Grade Perspective
"Maine State Archives X Back in the classroom, the next step was to examine the primary and secondary source material found in The Black Suitcase."
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Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream
"They drove it to Augusta and back to the McClench Machine Shop in Hallowell to be dismantled and not to be run again."
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Lincoln, Maine - Logging truck, Lincoln, ca. 1930
"The driver is Art Morgan and the helper by the back is Frank Sigue. The buildings in the background are at the location of the former Lake Mall area."