Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Thompson's Memorial

"Thompson in 1886. The marble shop created memorial works, including headstones and gravestones. After Thompson died in 1912, Frank Barney, his son…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 1 of 4

"In grade school, there wasn’t much work she had to do, but in high school she had quite a bit more, although she tells me that there wasn’t nearly as…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Northern Maine Fair Memories - Page 2 of 3

"At the busiest time, the forum had thirty men working on it. One thing that has changed tremendously was during the fair there were baseball games in…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 2 of 3

"… had to herd five water buffalos, and my father worked in rice and peanut fields. They both got little pay on some days, no pay on others."

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

"JJeremiah worked for Delta Air Lines for seventeen years. After leaving the Delta, he went to work in landscaping and plumbing, which is his job…"

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

"When my mother wasn’t working, she enjoyed riding the buffalos she tended. She liked to pick flowers in a local field, and watch the clouds go by."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Eddie's Market

"He started his career at age twenty working for Howard Michaud as a meat cutter and clerk. Michaud’s store was on the corner of State and Exchange…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - The History of Laundry, Aroostook County Style - Page 1 of 2

"Then the real work began. She took the scrub board and placed it in the tub, then took the clothes and ground them against the board to make sure…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 3 of 3

"I remember one time one of the guys I worked with parked one on the sidewalk of Main Street. When they got here they had a protective film around…"

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

"… would embed between the lags while the digger is working, causing the lags to come apart. Usually the teamster would have to hook the lags back…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Northern Maine Fair Memories - Page 1 of 3

"Dorothy worked at the racing office about the same time. Dorothy thinks one thing that has changed about harness racing is racers need to go faster…"

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

"Harvesting Potatoes WORKING ON BACK Loading Potato Barrels, Presque Isle, 1976Presque Isle Historical Society During the 1940s, battery…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"… to Presque Isle at the age of 16 and went to work for P.H. Phair in the lumber and starch business where he toiled for 30 years."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"Only one third of the land was good for farming, but the fishing was excellent. Travel was difficult at all times but especially in winter on roads…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"The work was there for whoever needed it. We women used to have a good time. It was hard work but we all knew one another; we were like a family.”…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… it is understood the first settlers subsisted by farming and fishing, little documented information is known about the early businesses and trades…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… islanders continued to live as best they could, farming and fishing as they had done since the island was first settled."

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… to Allan, retired in 1798 to his North Lubec farm. Ample clout, these two. Congress appropriated $5,000 in 1806, and not only for navigation."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… commercial activity – smoked herring, fishing, farming Myers Lifeboat, Lubec, ca. 1905Lubec Memorial Library 1850 – 1900 1860 • Lead mines…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Fred Ryder, Bangor, 1864

"… until April 1864 when he found him work on a farm and a chance to go to school. The illustrations, on page 596 of the Martin's "Journal" that he…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 74-138

"… tavern, learning to dance, learning accounting, farming, and politics. Some of the people and events mentioned are: Allen Rogers Reed Harding…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Ezekiel Hopkins house and grounds, Hampden, 1840

"… was a teenager, Martin worked for Hopkins on his farm and in his store. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Alonzo E. Raynes, Brewer, ca. 1838

"… he began to work in the fields at Reed Hardings farm in Brewer. Martin wrote, "This style of cap was in fashion when I was 4 years old they had no…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Fish weir, Ball Hill Cove, Hampden, ca. 1832

"… stepfather, Solomon Raynes, moved the family to a farm on Ball Hill Cove in Hampden. Martin, in a journal he wrote beginning in 1864 about his…"