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Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 3 of 4

"… and her brothers and sisters were old enough to pick potatoes, her mother and father would make her clothes."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 10 of 13

"… meant that there will be a chance to catch up on picking potatoes or to rest or play. This picture shows the Myron Gartley farm in 1976."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 1 of 5

"At that age she would pick about a barrel of potatoes a day, but as she got older she picked more. One day, at lunchtime, she and her bothers decided…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Farm Life

"They picked strawberries in early June. They also picked the raspberries in August. They would wake up early, at five o’ clock, to do chores around…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 5 of 5

"… to go into the woods, but Edwena did go and pick apples. One farmer’s wife would bring everybody ice cream cookies and something to drink."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 9 of 13

"On the left is a two-row digger operated by two men. A man is behind the digger picking potatoes. A full basket of potatoes is being emptied into a…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 5 of 13

"The potatoes would be picked from a section of the field allotted to the picker. If the section is too long, the picker would get behind and probably…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 4 of 4

"… Isle Historical Society To get money, she picked potatoes during harvest, and also she babysat."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Loading ice, Presque Isle Stream, 1946

"Ice picks are used to guide ice chunks from the stream to a conveyor. The conveyor takes the ice to the ice storage building shown in the photograph."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Along the Waterfront

"… Historical Society/MaineToday Media Fishermen aboard Herb Pick's motor boat, Portland, 1923Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 8 of 13

"You are missing too many potatoes. Go back and pick the ones you missed. 8. Don't pick any rotten potatoes. 9. Don't throw potatoes."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 2 of 3

"He told the boys not to pick that apple, “or we’d get our butts kicked.” There was a window on the house facing the tree with the apple."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 3 of 3

"She liked to pick flowers in a local field, and watch the clouds go by. Growing up, my mother didn’t have a TV or toys."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 13 of 13

"… no more baskets, no more tickets and no more picking potatoes. Former farmer Larry Park talks about how a potato harvester works."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 2 of 4

"They had to erase all of the chalkboards and pick up the classroom after school. After school, Glenna, her sisters, brothers, and friends would all…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Annie Martin, Bangor, 1864

"… dress for her doll, telling the cat she could not pick it up because she was busy. He wrote, "even now 1864 she has a very large doll nicely…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"Using a long saw, picks, and horses as hauling devices to pull the ice off the river. Once the ice was off the river, it would be pulled by horse to…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 6 of 13

"… farmer could keep track of the number of barrels picked by each picker. In the horse-drawn digger days of the early 1900s a potato picker could…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 3 of 13

"… Potatoes DIGGER LAGS SIFT OUT THE DIRT Picking potatoes, Presque Isle, 1939Presque Isle Historical Society Lags on a Digger X The bed…"

Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Bonnie and Donnie Staples' house

"You couldn’t go pick up a loaf of bread or do anything like that. But you know, they was good to the kids too."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 139-194

"… policy, his foray into cutting cord wood, picking up lumber and other material along the Penobscot River, a clam voyage to Cape Jellerson, saving a…"

Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"We’d pick the flake right up and put it on our table and pack the fish. Sometimes we’d pack 16 or so little fish in a can."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… an island tour in a buckboard? Stroll a field and pick wildflowers? Some combination of these? Richards family, ca."