Keywords: Tradition
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Sullivan and Sorrento Historical Society
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Early Maine Photography - Studio Portraits
"… photography and the larger scale, and more costly tradition of portrait painting. Samuel L. Carleton of Portland often used the devices of…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Wrappers, Teagowns & At Home Dresses
"… & At Home Dresses Slide Show Wrapper is the traditional term used for the gowns gathered under this heading."
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Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden
"… tree, they help us to appreciate a spirit and tradition of creating gardens at the turn of century that still illuminates and inspires new gardens…"
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"In Wabanaki languages and traditional stories, these relationships are paramount. It is difficult to talk about land or people without using kinship…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Granite and Ice Industries
"One traditional employment that helped sustain some through these times was the ice industry, which had started in Maine 100 years earlier and peaked…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life
"If the island's seagoing tradition had diminished, the summer yachting scene allowed many shipbuilders to continue on a smaller scale."
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Historic Hallowell - The Fireman's Musters in Hallowell
"… Hampshire, keeping many cities' and towns' muster traditions going. Hallowell musters were probably sponsored or were helped put on by the New…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Historical Society
"… in 1961 to protect the rich history, heritage and traditions of Scarborough. Its mission is to share this history with the community by collecting…"
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Maine Folklife Center, University of Maine
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Historic Clothing Collection - Mid Twentieth Century
"… shoppers retained a preference for more familiar, traditional styles of dress. Factions formed, iconic styles took hold, and silhouettes…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1930-1940 - Page 2 of 4
"… reminiscent of the Fortuny "Delphic" pleating tradition. All three garments are labelled "Jessie Franklin Turner, 410 Park Avenue, New York," the…"
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Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4
"… Frank Van Riper in the early Nineties showed how traditional the process was without intending to do so."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - About the Project
"… River Valley towns of MSAD’s 21 and 43 have traditionally close ties, and that part of the merger made a natural fit."
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"… on the old lifeways, Wabanakis now marketed their traditional arts, crafts, and canoeing skills to rusticators who visited their tented encampments."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor
"As for Wabanakis, some followed tradition, paddling age-old canoe routes. Others rode the same trains, steamboats, and stagecoaches as everyone else…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 1 of 13
"… 1895Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum A tradition unique to many Aroostook County residents has been the participation in the potato…"
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"The tradition of Biddeford as a place of possibility for those seeking a better life for themselves and their families has been renewed, manifested…"
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Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 1 of 3
"… people, and like many other islands, had its own traditions and culture which you could say were more oriented toward the seafaring life."