Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - Canoe race, Kenduskeag Stream, Bangor, 1865

"He wrote that they paddled to Brewer and back "in 8 minutes a mile and a third or ten mile an hour." Stephen Stanislaus and Sebattis Saul paddled…"

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

"… club aspired to having their own Indian-made paddle and birchbark canoe, and many turned to proven experts from the Indian encampment for…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 6, pages 97-113

"Ten members of the Penobscot tribe paddled the canoes.   Part 6, pages 97-113 Topics and personalities include: Irish immigrants Brig. Gen."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"Richards, fascinated with these canoes, purchased this canoe before disembarking the steamer. Tudor and John Richards II, grandsons of Henry…"

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…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment

"… orders for items such as personalized hand-carved paddles, and occasionally, to have their fortunes told. Wabanaki encampment, Bar Harbor, ca."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"… on them with great mountains of spray.” “We have paddled with dear old Big Thunder, when the waves rocked us in his little canoe, and when we…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"They produced ash tool handles, canoes and paddles, and the ash baskets for the potato industry. With mechanization of logging and potato farming…"