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

"After leaving the Delta, he went to work in landscaping and plumbing, which is his job today. As a child, his family would take trips to Mama…"

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L.C. Bates Museum/Good Will-Hinckley

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Freeport Historical Society

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 1 of 3

"Another free-flowing counter-culture garment landscape, largely on college campuses, emerged encompassing a medley of home embroidered and patched…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 1 of 6

"… when those divergent ambitions collided across a landscape that was and remains at once alluring, inspiring, and challenging."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Plymouth Company (Kennebec Proprietors) records, ca. 1625-1824

"… Company), and squatters created a dynamic landscape with much at stake as the company laid claim to a roughly 1,500 square mile region on either…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"During these stays artists explored and interpreted Mount Desert Island’s landscapes through pencil sketches and paintings that were finished, shared…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"… cottages started appearing across the landscape. The final push was when Acadia National Park was formed, putting Mount Desert Island on the map as…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 4 of 4

"… Society & Museum Winslow Homer Winslow Homer, landscape painter best known for his marine subjects, was born in Boston 24 February 1836 to Charles…"

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

"The waterfront landscape was densely crowded with smokehouses, sardine canneries, lumber and coal businesses out on the wharves."

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Cumberland's Prince Memorial Library : Evolution of a Community Institution

"… plant was added and the library grounds were landscaped at the same time the addition was constructed."

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Acadia National Park

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3

"… afterwards and opened a studio specializing in landscape and portrait photography. Starbird released a series of photographs called “The Woods of…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

"… should use rail to access the wondrous, outdoor landscape described in various articles and publications."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"… imperial authorities to accord with the actual landscape of the northeast as understood by the people who lived there."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… Farmington in 1859, Farmington’s agricultural landscape took another giant step. Farmer’s now had a way to get surplus crops, livestock and produce…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… in the evening.” Charles Eliot opened his own landscape architecture business and became a pioneer in that field."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"Ever vigilant of the natural landscape while not losing sight of furthering the commercial attractiveness of Asticou, Charles came into his own…"

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"Frank Blaisdell, a landscape and civil engineer, designed this and several other amusement parks, including Riverton in Portland."

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Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… its sparkling bay, its inlets, its shores, its landscape of hill, dale, and plain ; they were pleased with it, and the testimony of a century and a…"

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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"… its sparkling bay, its inlets, its shores, its landscapes of hill, dale and plain…” The same qualities began to bring summer vacationers to town…"

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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 1 of 5

"There was nothing there before except an empty landscape. It is a normal building, made of wood, and not too much insulation."

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Rumford Area Historical Society

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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal

"… 7, pages 452-534 Births of Annie, Junior, Elmer; landscaping and garden design, business failures and attempts to find work   Part 8, pages…"