Maine Memory Network

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

"… just in the rear of the tents, on rusty cook-stoves set up on a few boards. -Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 8/23/1884 Life behind Wabanaki…"

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."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"Ayers stopped and helped me unload. Set up stove etc. I built a fire and then with Ayers went down to his house where with my wife and child and I…"

Otisfield Historical Society

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Bangor Public Library

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Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"The first kids to arrive at school would load the stove with firewood gathered by the boys. Some of the schools were even labeled as unfit for…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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