Maine Memory Network

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"… and oil, as well as to gather sea fowl eggs, sweet grass, clams and lobsters. As Dr. Small states in his 1898 history, “This tribe made irregular…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders At Play

"Sweet Chariot Festival musicians, Swan's Island, ca. 2000Swan's Island Historical Society In 1987, Doug Day brought another form of musical…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Odd Fellows Hall

"… in the hall on Sundays, the theater group 'The Hockamock Players' and the annual Sweet Chariot Festival uses the stage for their summer concerts."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… Lubec) during the spring smelt run, gathered sweet grass and harvested shellfish, the remains of which have been discovered in shell middens along…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

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

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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