Maine Memory Network

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

"Others picked the potatoes from the ground and put them in barrels. The hand digger on the right, demonstrated by Mr."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 2 of 5

"The potato truck had full and empty barrels on the back of it. When the truck went by Edwena never got a barrel."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 9 of 13

"Harvesting Potatoes A POTATO HARVESTING SCENE A Potato Harvesting Scene, Presque Isle, 1945Presque Isle Historical Society This painting by…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 2 of 13

"The arms would dig into the row and throw the potatoes and rocks off to the side. A person would not want to be in the way."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 4 of 5

"… digger man would start coming down that row to dig the potatoes out of the ground. They would have to move the barrels out of the way, too."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"Carry a spade to dig a grave for the poor thing.” This counsel was to prove false as the infant, Hannah, lived to the age of 79."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works

"… of the arrangements of the farm and lime works, digging clay, etc., goes on with fidelity and that I am not imposed upon in any shape, by being…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… to Islesboro from the mainland to pick berries, dig for clams, pick sweet grass for baskets and split ash for containers."