Maine Memory Network

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"There are many vendors selling deep fried food, cotton candy, and homemade and international foods. People with amazing musical talents play on the…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"People kept their food cold using large blocks of ice. If people wanted ice, they would put a card in the window showing how much ice they wanted."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Day 1

"… to keep warm and find shelter where there was food as police had to help people out of their houses."

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"… molasses, rum, shoes, tools, different types of food that they did not already have, and sometimes ships brought things from the Caribbean."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… corn were planted later to be turned into flour, food crops were planted, as well as oats for livestock. Apple orchards were quickly established."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"… the case in other smokehouses in the area, this food preservation process was carried out in traditional fashion."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - They Should Have Constructed Their Buildings On Wheels

"… purposing the land to serve basic human needs of food, clothing and shelter, to harvesting and developing the land for commerce and trade taking…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Years on Mt. Desert Island

"… crops, tending the animals, preserving the food, spinning and weaving the clothing, cooking and tending the children."

Historic Hallowell - A Chosen Place ~ Once Again

"… aspects of creativity--be it with music, paint, food or words--that enrich our lives and aren’t a frill…."

Historic Hallowell - The Fireman's Musters in Hallowell

"… teamwork, joking around, barbecues and other food brought by people. Musters would have brought business to local stores and united people who…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Bonnie and Donnie Staples' house

"Dunham's store sold a variety of food items such as the ice cream and candy that made it memorable to the younger islanders."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Woodrow Wilson

"… very careful with what we used and paper good and food and so forth and had to make everything we bought had to be something that was vital to us…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… for fur hats in Europe eliminated the winter food supply for the food foraging native people of northern Maine."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4

"… "Circle Farm." They grew much of their own food and like other Blue Hill residents that preceded them they learned a variety of professions in…"

Caribou Public Library

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Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?

"… firewood to heat their homes and cook their food. During the colonial period the average homestead consumed 20-30 cords of wood per year."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"And just make big pots of food that people could eat. And just trying to consume all of the food that was in your freezer."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - WWI Impact on Farmington's Agriculture

"… roles in local agriculture and were supplying food and goods. Farmington men who received the Deferred Classification designation included: Warren…"

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

"They served pasta and other good Italian food. Hartt’s Restaurant “served the best pizza you could ever imagine.” It had a soda fountain, and jukebox."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 1 of 13

"Farmers and lumbermen not only used potatoes for food, they learned how to extracted starch from them for their own use to stiffen cloth for fancy…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Beniah Harding

"… of course running a restaurant he had access to food, and he would exchange meals not for money, but for a personal item like a ring or some…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3

"… Public Library These citizens would either have food, clothing or medicine brought to their home if they had one, or if they had no home they…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4

"It was a source of food for themselves as well as their domestic animals. They harvested salt hay as fodder for cattle and sheep and used the marsh…"

New Sweden Historical Society

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