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Site Pages
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder
""My great-great grandfather Frank Loring, known as Chief Big Thunder, loved Bar Harbor and spent many years traveling there seasonally and camping on…"
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Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 2 of 4
"Give my love to the children and Grandfather and Grandmother. I shall answer all letters as fast as possible while we remain here."
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Lincoln, Maine - Benjamin Chesley
"His grandfather was an “Indian” in the Boston Tea Party. His father, Nicholas Sr., was married to Sarah Hammond, daughter of Benjamin Hammond."
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Lincoln, Maine - Methodist Church
"I hope I am able to get married there someday. My grandfather is part of the choir. The fact that this church is so old makes me want to spread the…"
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"My grandfather told me about it. Sometimes in the morning I get woken up by the train as it goes by my house and honks its horn."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4
"Source Moulton, Augustus. Grandfather Tales of Scarborough. Portland, ME: Katahdin Publishing Co., 1925."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4
"As one of four boys whose father, grandfathers, several uncles and cousins were all lobstermen, I recall lobster fishing during the period 1949 to…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 3 of 4
"… brought to the presidency, as did his father and grandfather before him, new energies and a keen business sense."
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Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement
"… in Maine.[15] In October 1793, Peleg Wadsworth, grandfather of the noted poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, put forth an effort to place a separation…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born
"… to a memoir entitled My Recollections of Grandfather and Grandmother and Their Family written in 1982 by Emily Phillips Reynolds (1889-1984)…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn
"He was born into a prominent family, his grandfather Supply, was one of the early settlers who came here from Stoughton, Mass."
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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4
"… a boy, served up the grog at the yard where her grandfather, Asa Clough, Jr., was ship’s carpenter and master builder."
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"… 168 people, some of those people were fathers and grandfathers and maybe mothers. They gave their lives for the people of the United States to make…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2
"… Society & Museum Harold Seal, the author’s grandfather, was in his powerboat, the Cappy, hauling lobster traps near Higgins Beach when a…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway
"See note 2 above. 5. August F. Moulton, Grandfather Tales of Scarborough (Portland, ME: Katahdin Publishing Co., 1925)."
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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers
"… him, and learned to sing above the din when their grandfather sang. It was John’s daughter, Amanda, who married into the Norton Family and would…"