Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…

"… spotted the first European sailing ships cruising along their seacoast. The Wabanaki or Dawnland People* had lived in Maine for thousands of years…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Summer Pleasures

"… is of Normie Burns taking islanders out for a cruise and dinner or lunch in Stonington or Isle Au Haut."

Maine Maritime Museum

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"1 Jan 2010. (N) Hendrick, Peg. "Rumery Boats Cruise the World." Biddeford-Saco Journal (Biddeford, Me.) 6 Apr. 1968: A1. Print. (S) Lawton, R.J."

Lincoln, Maine - Cars, Model T

"… Down the Roads of Lincoln Model T Buy a Model-T Cruising Down Streets of Lincoln Going Home Again Works Cited Bradstreet, Taylor."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"Cruising down the Neck minus their headlights, the drivers would secure their cargo, and slip away towards Bangor and Mount Desert Island."

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"They arrived at their personal dock via ocean cruise, or boated across the two miles from Eastport, Maine’s train terminal."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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