Maine Memory Network

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

"… islanders hope is that you will be able to see and hear about our ancestors and what we have learned about Swan’s Island from them."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Borderland Essays

"… boundary between the United States in Canada, and the "borderland" region known between what is today the American state of Maine and the Canadian…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Andrew Smith Store

"The home still stands at 290 Atlantic Road, and is currently owned byCharles and Ernestine's daughter, Nancy Davis."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Summer Pleasures cont'd

"Her grandmother was from Atlantic and her grandfather was from Minturn. He was widowed at the time and they had never met before."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - -Across the Sea- a history through transportation

"… finding new ways to carry goods, people, and information to and from their remote home. So, too, have they adapted to make a living off the sea…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - History Detectives

"The club met after school to solve 'mysteries' with island artifacts, play games, work on exhibits, act out historical scenes, and learn from local…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Student genealogy

"He married Evelyn Lora Martin in 1922 and they lived on the Quarry Road. Fritz was reported to be the fastest paving stone cutter of his time."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Winter Fun

"… Goose Pond is in the interior part of the island and there is the Quarry Pond in Minturn which was created by the filling in of water when the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background

"… frequency which the original items were consulted and handled in person; preservation concerns; the overall breadth and uniqueness of the holdings…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners

"… across the country steward important collections" and strengthen "efforts to extend the reach of such materials and make their intellectual content…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading

"Greer, Allan. Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America. Cambridge, United Kindgom: Cambridge University…"

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

"… least five people more opinions would be voiced and better decisions made. Roberta requested of the town, which asked the legislature to expand the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 6 of 7

"… of land in Brunswick and Topsham between 1715 and 1722, and continued a policy of selling initial plots of 100 acres for £5, to entice colonists to…"

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

"Audio stories Swan's Islanders at Work and Play CD Our audios story tellers: Marguerite Staples, Marion Stinson, Sonny Sprague, Keving Staples, Eva…"

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

"There were school plays put on by the students and plays to benefit student activity funds (PIK- People Interested in Kids)."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Telephone communication

"Joyce in Atlantic and Isaac W. Stinson in Swan's Island Village, had a telephone line between their stores so they could talk to each other."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 1 of 7

"Both companies formed to legitimize and take advantage of titles to vast tracts of Wabanaki Homelands, but the different origins of their claims both…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 7 of 7

"… buying from one company often faced threats and lawsuits from rivals, and some even paid multiple sets of proprietors for their land to avoid…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 4 of 7

"… most of the presiding members of the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors lived in and around Boston."

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

"Musicians would think nothing of getting together and playing for a dance. Captain Herrick’s Ocean View Hotel in Swan’s Island Village had a well…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 5 of 7

"… Pejepscot Proprietors relied on Benjamin Larrabee and Enoch Freeman to collect payments, sell additional lots, and to deal with squatters or…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Draining the quarry

"… was over each year, the rain filled up the pit and iced over in the winter to make a popular skating pond."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 3 of 7

"… Pejepscot Proprietors quickly founded Brunswick and Topsham, and spent the next few decades struggling to recruit settler-colonialists willing to…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 2 of 7

"The original four shareholders and their descendants gradually sold off portions of their shares into ever smaller pieces, while the original patent…"