Keywords: Downeast
Item 7714
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Eastport Media: Photoprint
Item 80280
Letter to Sarah Tarbox Greenleaf from brother Valentine, Lubec, 1852
Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: 1852 Location: Westport Island; Lubec; Brooksville Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
John Dunn, 19th Century Sportsman
John Warner Grigg Dunn was an accomplished amateur photographer, hunter, fisherman and lover of nature. On his trips to Ragged Lake and environs, he became an early innovator among amateur wildlife photographers. His photography left us with a unique record of the Moosehead Lake region in the late nineteenth century.
Exhibit
Liberty Threatened: Maine in 1775
At Lexington and Concord, on April 19, 1775, British troops attempted to destroy munitions stored by American colonists. The battles were the opening salvos of the American Revolution. Shortly, the conflict would erupt in Maine.
Site Page
Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair
"A Real Downeast County Fair Collaboratively written by The Bay School's eighth grade: Noah Cimeno, Aphelion Crampton, Alexander Heilner, Loriman…"
Site Page
Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast
"Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast One of the last places on the Maine coast to be settled by the English was the Penobscot Bay…"
Story
Growing up DownEast
by Darrin MC Mclellan
Stories of growing up Downeast
Story
Too Small to Have a Town Drunk
by Scott Maker
Vignettes from Downeast Maine
