Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"… shows and traditional song and dance, selling crafts and posing for photographs in Indian dress."

Moosehead Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s

"… Wabanakis now marketed their traditional arts, crafts, and canoeing skills to rusticators who visited their tented encampments."

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"… exhibits, and local domestic and manufactured crafts. The fields in front of Tucker’s Farm were bustling with visiting farmers and their animals…"

Abbe Museum

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"… he boosted sales of Wabanaki relics and crafts by telling captivating stories about the objects and himself."

Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"… many seafarers from Blue Hill who learned the craft from their fathers, and many Blue Hill boys went to sea before they were out of their 'teens."

Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"… live reindeer, an Eskimo family, arts and crafts from children around the world, youth representing Youth for Christ International, and a Yule Log…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… chert (flint) which they used to make beautifully crafted “fluted” spear points. Despite the evidence of early Paleoindians in the Munsungan Lake…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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