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Item 61876
Title: Spencer Joyce describes lobstering, Swan's Island, 1967-2010
Contributed by: Swan's Island Educational Society
Date: 2010
Location: Swans Island
Media: mp3
Item 31055
Title: Bait Sponger, Scarborough, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Date: circa 1920
Media: Wood, steel
Item 79585
Title: Wooden lobster traps, South Bristol, ca. 1978
Contributed by: South Bristol Historical Society
Date: circa 1978
Location: South Bristol
Media: color photograph
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Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag
The history of a 350+-year-old city south of Portland, the Scarborough site was constructed by representatives from Scarborough Historical Society, Scarborough Middle School, and Scarborough Public Library. Exhibits include the marsh, transportation and roads, shipyards and shipwrecks, clamming and lobstering, famous residents, and education.
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary
A look back at island life in Maine as captured by a team consisting of Swan's Island Educational Society representatives, which encompasses the community's library and historical society, a class from the Swan's Island School, and an Island Fellow from the Island Institute. Exhibit topics examine islanders at work and play, Baird's Quarry, old buildings, and the changing role of women on the island.