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Historical Items

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Item 100883

Sebago Lake Reservoir, Standish, ca. 1912

Contributed by: Portland Water District Date: 1912 Location: Standish Media: Photographic print

Item 25835

Edmund S. Muskie letter to the editor, 1971

Contributed by: Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library Date: 1971-12-09 Location: Waterville Media: Ink on paper

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Item 135850

Edmund S. Muskie, 1972

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1972 Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Clean Water: Muskie and the Environment

Maine Senator Edmund S. Muskie earned the nickname "Mr. Clean" for his environment efforts during his tenure in Congress from 1959 to 1980. He helped created a political coalition that passed important clean air and clean water legislation, drawing on his roots in Maine.

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Princeton: Woods and Water Built This Town

Princeton benefited from its location on a river -- the St. Croix -- that was useful for transportation of people and lumber and for powering mills as well as on its proximity to forests.

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High Water

Melting snow, ice, warmer temperatures, and rain sometimes bring floods to Maine's many rivers and streams. Floods are most frequent in the spring, but can occur at any season.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Lubec, Maine - The Blizzard of '34 - Page 1 of 2

"… the stores has been closed, and none...have been cleaned out of foodstuffs.” Two dealers S.B. Stuart & Co. and the Columbian Packing Co."

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Lubec, Maine - A Signature Quilt

"Leave cleaning, restoration and repair to historic textile experts. Store it unfolded or preferably rolled in archival paper and box."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - The History of Laundry, Aroostook County Style - Page 1 of 2

"Some preferred to use buckets to bring the water to the tub. The water was cold. She usually started this in the morning because the clothes took all…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall

Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.

Story

I never thought I would work at a paper mill.
by Greg Bizier

I love science and managed the lab for International Paper's Otis Mill for 31 years.

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Finding and cooking fiddleheads with my parents
by Brian J. Theriault

My father has been picking and eating fiddleheads almost all his life, Mom prepares and stores them