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Opera Company's Tenth Anniversary festival schedule, Surry, 1994

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… 80 people-- schoolteachers, carpenters, sawyers, clam diggers, children, architects and retirees--came together to perform the two operas at the…"

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Governor Bodwell Steamboat, Swan's Island, ca. 1920

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… lobster canning factories were converted to can clams instead. In 1895 H.W. Joyce built a sardine factory for the herring that were plentiful at…"

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Survey Chart, Islesboro, 1884

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Fish and clams were plentiful, as well as wild duck. Wildlife included fox and mink. Deer arrived in the 1930s and are now abundant."