Maine Memory Network

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

"New York Sportsman's Show booth, 1897 "Camp Oquossoc" displayed expert taxidermy and the latest sporting equipment from all over Maine."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake

"… shoreline is now heavily developed with family camps, cottages and homes. The different fish in Porter Lake are the landlocked salmon and lake…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"Sporting camps around Maine loved to have Fly Rod come and visit. She was great publicity! The sporting camps would give her free food and free…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… city homes, preferring to rely on islanders as cooks, interior home workers and nursemaids for children. F.S."

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

"… encampment, Bar Harbor, 1881Abbe Museum All the cooking at the Indian encampment is done out-of-doors, just in the rear of the tents, on rusty…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"Dunbar, Henry M. Spelman, hired cook William Breyant, and hired boatman Orrin Donnell (of Sullivan, Maine), sailed Downeast from Boston."

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"A cook accompanied the loggers, sometimes good and sometimes, well, not-so-good. The men worked under hazardous conditions the whole time -- slipping…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 1 of 4

"I shall send you A drawing of our cook tents , Camps, etc. with this to give you an idea of our mode of living."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"I had- we had a kerosene stove from camping. So we had lots of camping equipment. So we did get our cooler out and we did get our stove out."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… from weirs, transported them to the factories, cooked the sardines and sealed the cans. Until child labor laws were instituted in the 1930s…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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