Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Logging truck, Lincoln, ca. 1930

"… Description These trucks would come across the frozen lake from the woods to the mill in the winter."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… a myriad of colors before giving way to winter’s frozen snowmobile trails and ice-fishing huts. Spring gives birth to the many wild animals that…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice; The Ice Storm of 1998; Ice Storm '98

"… and falls again The storm continues Everything is frozen Trees fall, the ice melts You can hear nothing, just silent After 3 days of wind and rain…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"When the platform was frozen then you could cut the ice with saws, drag it out of the pond and up and onto the platform and shove it on to the wagon."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Comparisons

"… had limbs that had been blown off from being so frozen and brittle. Another common factor was that a lot of homes and business's were and are with…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond ~ A Family Affair

"When the platform was frozen then you could cut the ice with saws, drag it out of the pond and up and onto the platform and shove it on to the wagon."

Historic Hallowell - Lineman's Journal

"… out then I would have to go get wood, and it was frozen so we had to wait until it melted in order to burn it."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"… chop suey, or anything that you could stir the frozen vegetables into. And just make big pots of food that people could eat."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"… attended when the river was insufficiently frozen for them to walk across to the Rumford Center School."

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"Out in the wilderness all of the water was frozen, so there was no way to clean themselves. They made sweat baths or lodges, by heating stones in a…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"These usually frozen marshes were probably similar to those found at Parker Cove and Coombs Cove. THE BLUFF Further south on one of the two highest…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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