Maine Memory Network

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

"What was left of it eventually became the summer home of Eric and Fran Chetwynd. The current house is a much smaller, but recognizable version of the…"

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

"Ice harvesting and storage for summer use was prevalent through the land. In Hallowell the Moore family operated and ice business for several…"

Blue Hill, Maine - The Musical Culture of Blue Hill

"Kneisel had a home in Blue Hill and came up every summer. Eventually he started bringing some of his students up to Blue Hill, and other members of…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 6 of 6

"… carved signs and placques, often commissions for summer residents, local churches, the Northeast Harbor Village Improvement Association trails, and…"

Lincoln, Maine - Masonic Hall

"Masonic Hall, Town Offices Main Street, Lincoln present-day X Works Cited “Masonic Hall, Lincoln, 1904.” Maine Memory Network."

Thomaston Historical Society

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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… axe, adze or saw, he did not receive 75 cents a day (apprentices received fifty cents) per day until he was 21 years old."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"After just one summer of work, the young men of the Champlain Society had seen enough to know that the island was at risk."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"The summer school was often kept by some of the inhabitants’ daughters. The first schools were held in rooms of houses within the district, the…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Explore photos from the "Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold" documentary

"For several summers in the mid-2000s, a team of student archeologists under the guidance of professors Rob Sanford and Nate Hamilton from the…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… and accommodating up to 12,000 patrons a day, now borders the present-day Avalon Village Retirement Community off Route 1A."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… settlers on Mount Desert Island, began taking in summer boarders at Harbor Cottage. From here on until the mid 1960s, the Savage family and…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"Around 1900 summer church services were held in an outdoor grove on the corner of Roxbury Road and Poplar Hill, near the Walton School."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement

"… according to a plan drawn by neighbor, summer resident, and civil engineer, Joseph H. Curtis of Boston."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"… made themselves available as guides to take summer people in canoes for sightseeing, fishing, or hunting including Penobscots Frank “Big Thunder”…"

Skowhegan Community History - Skowhegan: "A Place To Watch"

"… pulpwood logs, which were floated downstream all summer long. Skowhegan Island X However, the heavy logging use clogged the river and took a…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Jonathan Fisher: Unlocking the Person Beyond the Parson

"He also spent two summers as a intern minister in Blue Hill where he learned about the community and they about him."

Old York Historical Society

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Southwest Harbor Public Library

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Western Maine Foothills Region - A Man's Life in a Suitcase

"… letters reveal that he helped get in the ice for summer, wood for winter, and hay for the animals. He lived on a farm on Roxbury Road in Mexico."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"This building offered the town a venue for summer plays, silent movies, dances, town meetings, school functions, and the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"The offer was intriguing and the first summer 80 people-- schoolteachers, carpenters, sawyers, clam diggers, children, architects and retirees--came…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War

"There was overheating in the summer and it was very cold in the winter. Throughout the war overcrowding, disease, and hunger plagued the prisoners."

Guilford, Maine - Guilford Schools

"The first session met in summer under the supervision of teacher Miss Betsey Moore and the second session met in the winter under the tutelage of Mr."