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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's cart, Hampden, ca. 1833

"… this summer I became a quite a mechanic I made me a cart with hub and spoke wheels and the idea started from an instance of a crooked limb which I…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Alonzo E. Raynes, Brewer, ca. 1838

"… he began to want to be in the fields and with me where ever I went." The image appears on page 283 of the journal Martin began in 1864, recalling…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin in Spanish cloak, Bangor, 1846

"… deformed it was a very appropriate garment for me." In the spring of 1846, he bought the stove pipe hat, which had just come into fashion."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin store, Center Street, Bangor, 1862

"… my house & store and I have both coppies before me now." The store was by the Rail Road Bridge. View additional information about this item on…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Thieves in Bangor, ca. 1865

"… "a series of individuals and implement which cost me during thirteen months of the rebelion nearly six hundred dollars and who was the immediate…"

Lincoln, Maine - Aroostook War

"… sort of disease or illness that would prevent me from going further? Would the disease kill me eventually? In the end, no one ended up being killed…"

Historic Hallowell - Cotton Mill & Johnson Shoe Citations

"Ledew. Historic Hallowell. Hallowell, ME: Kennebec Journal           Print Shop, 1962. Vanderweide, Harry."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Comparisons

"… between the ice storm of 1998 Hallowell ME, and the ice storm of 1998 in Canada. In Canada, all of the trees were coated in a thick layer of ice…"

Historic Hallowell - Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer

"… I may give or Gladness I can create, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again."

Life on a Tidal River - Resources

"Bangor Volume II: The Twentieth Century (ME) (Images of America). Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1997. Print."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Joseph Mitchell and Mutual Store wagon, Bangor, 1865

"… the Mutual Store, "This store has been a curse to me ever since the day it was established it has made no difference what article I have offered…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - First balloon ascension, Bangor, 1857

"… above the clouds, I now had the reality before me and I made a vow that from that day out I would never dispute any science projected by man untill…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 3 of 4

"Well I must close please give me respects to all. Yours truly Fred H. Rogers *Birney is A Philladelphian) The 3 Regts were the 3d 4th & 17th In a…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ballard Hill School, Lincoln, ca. 1930

"… are now offered and the Community Meals for Me is also located there. This historic building stands strong today, overlooking the town and many…"

Lincoln, Maine - Gary Gordon

"This definitely made me stop and think about how lucky I am to have a dad that isn’t a part of the war."

Lincoln, Maine - Cars, Model T

"… how many people own cars in my community gives me a clear perspective of how many people in the world own a vehicle."

Lincoln, Maine - Nathaniel Bodwell

"To me, anything that has to do with war is unreasonable and doesn't need to happen. I would be so scared knowing that he was only there to beat on…"

Lincoln, Maine - Civil War

"However, I would thank them for what they did and I would be grateful for them doing that not only for me, but for the strangers they would be…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Partners

"18 http://www.patten.lib.me.us/history email: history@patten.lib.me.us Sagadahoc History Room Hours Bath Middle School Bath Middle School is a 6-8…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Ocean View Hotel

"She used to take my brother, of course he’d fall asleep on the settees and that was fine, but not me, boy—music, I right up and at ‘em! I remember—we…"

Historic Hallowell - The Opening & Closing of Hallowell's Shoe Companies

"… is located at 2 Academy Street, Hallowell, ME. Hallowell Cotton Mill, Academy Street, ca."

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

"One islander told me that her grandparents met for the first time in their mid-20s at the Seaside Hall."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"“About Me Q&A.” Christina Baker Kline, 2019, christinabakerkline.com/q-a/about-me/. Ancestry®, 2019…"