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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"… he boosted sales of Wabanaki relics and crafts by telling captivating stories about the objects and himself."

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village Schools

"… on local history, and many of their unique crafts and projects still survive today. For many years, Central Elementary school housed New Portland…"

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland Community Library

"… a day care, a town library, and a farming or craft co-op.  The latter never got off the ground and the day care was active for several years before…"

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Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"Farnsworth Library and Art Museum. The Arts and Crafts of the Versatile Parson Fisher, 1768-1847, Downeast Books, 1967. (JF) Wood, Esther."

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Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"… many seafarers from Blue Hill who learned the craft from their fathers, and many Blue Hill boys went to sea before they were out of their 'teens."

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Lincoln, Maine - Methodist Church

"… of the whole congregation, turkey pie suppers, craft fairs, putting on plays, selling hot dogs at the Homecoming parade, and riding on the parade…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"… nonfarm work, and nontraditional products and crafts. Granite quarry, Mount Desert, c.1890Maine Granite Industry Historical Society The…"

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Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"… employment and allowed artists to focus on their craft away from the city in a more relaxed country setting."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"… of the citizens of Rumford are shown at the many craft fairs during the holiday season, and summer festivals."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"… live reindeer, an Eskimo family, arts and crafts from children around the world, youth representing Youth for Christ International, and a Yule Log…"

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Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… Can closes in Lubec • Movie theater burns • Lubec Crafts Council incorporated 1975 • McCurdy Smokehouse is the only remaining business of its kind…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… chert (flint) which they used to make beautifully crafted “fluted” spear points. Despite the evidence of early Paleoindians in the Munsungan Lake…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"… and manufacturing nontraditional products and crafts. Lard Bucket X Farming Diversity Unlike large single-crop farms of the west, our local…"

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Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… house” where an early family, the Philbricks, crafted cream pots, bean crocks, molasses jugs, milk pans and other vessels from the red clay of the…"

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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… recorded as many as 17 outbound and 15 inbound craft passing the Head in September 1874. Incoming cargo included coal and flour from Boston, as…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"The first regular packet (small sailing craft) line was established in 1859 between Islesboro and Belfast, bringing supplies to the islanders from a…"

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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