Keywords: wood cutting
Item 33889
Inkwell, Ink Bottle, Wood Cut Block, Blue Hill, ca. 1800
Contributed by: Jonathan Fisher Memorial, Inc. Date: circa 1800 Location: Blue Hill Media: Glass, brown ceramic, wood, metal and paper
Item 12956
Seed potato cutting bench, Littleton, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1930 Location: Littleton Media: Wood
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
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.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?
"A settler could either collect and sell the plain wood ash, or they could blanch it in a large vat, and boil it down to produce pot-ash (potash)."
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Rustic furniture, Bangor, 1865
"… "some curiosities in cedar crooks" in the woods, cut them and found someone hauling a load of wood to carry the cedar out of the woods for him."
Story
In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood
An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.
Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life
