Keywords: Summer people
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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Bob's Bears
"Well, boys and girls, every year on a warm summer's afternoon, at about the time of the Bangor Fair, I think of a happening from my early days on…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …next came the artists and rusticators.
"… the start of Mount Desert Island’s influx of summer vacationers. Cole founded the Hudson River School, a famous movement of landscape and seascape…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators on the Rise
"Its gilded age had arrived, with Bar Harbor’s reputation as one of the most fashionable resorts firmly set. In truth, a wide range of people…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Northeast Harbor: Rustic to Rusticators
"Desert, though it had been the summer residence of Native Americans for generations and had been given the name "Pemetic" by them."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans
"… people who called themselves Wolastuqiyik, people of the beautiful river, or people of the Wolastuq (St. John) River."
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Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook
"The small farm buildings, used to store ice through the summer, were recognized by their thick, insulated walls and few windows."
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Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook
"The small farm buildings, used to store ice through the summer, were recognized by their thick, insulated walls and few windows."
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 3 of 3
"The Rangeley Record ran her obituary ending with this message: “Rangeley has lost one of its most famous people and America has lost its most famous…"
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Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting
"When summer came around, they would send out the ice to be purchased and put in ice boxes as a source of refrigeration until William Cullen would…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns
"… work, but Theodore Bear Mitchell spent many summers working at the Malvern Hotel. As recounted by his son, Theodore Norris Mitchell: “When my…"
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"The 1947 island fire had ravaged Bar Harbor and brought an end to much of the already declining wealthy summer colony there while hardly touching the…"
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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4
"… make Blue Hill a busy place for two months in the summer, but year-round jobs were scarce and the town's resident population declined as many young…"
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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…"
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Lincoln, Maine - Ballard Hill School, Lincoln, ca. 1930
"… Historical Society Description In the summer of 1918, the citizens of Lincoln banded together and started the construction of a new grade…"
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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…"
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"The fall and summer are really nice and kind of breezy because of the water. Good thing there’s no ice yet, the river would freeze and I might not be…"
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"… Parade from the front of the Masonic Hall in the summers. Masonic Hall, Town Offices Main Street, Lincoln present-day X Works Cited “Masonic…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families
"This massive effect that MDI's "summer people" have had upon the area can be represented more clearly by focusing on one man’s story."
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"… of the Isles (1901) was built for the Catholic summer help who worked for the wealthy summer families."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5
"Ruth Kidder wrote: The “Year With No Summer-1816" caused the men to hoe and harvest with mittens on or the frost stuck their hands to the tools."