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Historic Hallowell - Blizzard Poems

"… Surprise disaster warning last minute necessities struggling people Roads plow’s success died down difficult transportation troubled vehicles…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"Their farms were widely separated, and they struggled for existence in the face of primitive hardships."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"As the tribes struggled to get by without sacrificing their rich cultural traditions, some began to market themselves as native tour guides and…"

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Works Cited Page

"Crowell, Alan. “CMP struggles to restore power.” Kennebec Journal, 8 Jan. 1998, sec. pg: 1. Dawson, Judy. Personal interview. n.d. Edwards, Keith."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 6 of 7

"… Pejepscot Proprietors spent the next half century struggling with Brunswick and Topsham residents who squatted on unsold land, stalled on payments…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 3 of 7

"… and Topsham, and spent the next few decades struggling to recruit settler-colonialists willing to move to what they viewed as a dangerous frontier…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 4 of 4

"The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier. New York: Penguin Books, 2004. York Deeds. Vol. II, 114."

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

"In her final years she had struggled with poor health, failing eyesight and had suffered a nervous breakdown in 1926."

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

"… and boundary commissions—all offer insight into struggles over who governed where, who owned what, and how they owned it."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 3 of 5

"This struggle over who had the right to develop the Eastward led to a formal petition in 1731 by Massachusetts to the King’s attorney and solicitor…"

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"… of the colony and did not report about the struggles, which were soon forgotten. New Sweden Gustaf Adolph Lutheran Church, ca."

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Day 1

"But the thing is is that people were struggling to keep warm and find shelter where there was food as police had to help people out of their houses."

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Skowhegan Community History - Skowhegan: "A Place To Watch"

"… and French explorers engaged in territorial struggles during much of the 1700s, so it wasn’t until 1772 (when the young colony was expanding) that…"

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Maine's Road to Statehood - The Missouri Compromise: A Moral Dilemma

"Yet for those who were involved in the struggle for separation for nearly 40 years, they were hesitant to let their greatest opportunity fail."

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

"… the young men grew older, their scientific spirit struggled to continue amid the distractions of the social scene, and the members began to treat…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Historical Society - Page 2 of 2

"… has seen its own trials and tribulations in its struggle to keep and organize the history of the town."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"… walk on the moon; and the continuing Viet Nam struggle. Broadturn Farm X During the last two decades, Scarborough continued to grow."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"… more than a decade, but the business owners struggled with the process of collecting the milk, and even faced a lack of cows to produce milk."

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Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"Woodward, Colin. The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier. New York: Penguin Books, 2004. Print."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 1 of 2

"… information about him and his life, including the struggles he faced and the changes in society -- some of which he liked and some of which he…"

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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 5 of 5

"… Maudit and Jennifer Tunnicliffe, eds., Constant Struggle: Histories of Canadian Democratization (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School

"… Historical Society The Abbott School would soon struggle to remain a viable educational facility. World War I had an impact – the school…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"However, the Academy was always struggling to keep the doors open, even though it provided a high level of education in languages, music, math and…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"Did you have many struggles? My father lost his job, and then he went to work for a rich family for 4 to 5 years."