Maine Memory Network

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Music in Maine - Community Music

"Community and social groups like the Grange craft cultures, rituals, and music. Granges throughout the United States used the same song books during…"

Jonathan Fisher Memorial

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"Here local artisans pridefully display their creations to a grateful and supportive public. Bicentennial Quilt, Islesboro, 1989Islesboro…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Wabanaki Today

"… a market for selling baskets and other Wabanaki crafts, but it is also an opportunity for tribal members from far reaching communities to come…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"Poster for Frank "Big Thunder" Loring, 1884Northeast Harbor Library These native performances and tours were wildly popular with summer visitors…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"… of the citizens of Rumford are shown at the many craft fairs during the holiday season, and summer festivals."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Industries

"In the 1930s the line was expanded to include crafts and novelty items. The Carr O’Brien brick building on the opposite corner of Wadsworth Street…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s

"… Wabanakis now marketed their traditional arts, crafts, and canoeing skills to rusticators who visited their tented encampments."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The "Edward O'Brien", the "Washington B. Thomas", & "Edna Hoyt"

"Thomas,” a 5-master of 2639 tons, the largest craft of any type ever built on the St. George River. Her career was cut short by a shipwreck off…"

Early Maine Photography - Occupational

"The wide variety of women’s hand crafts, such as weaving, quilting, and crocheting, is reflected in the Vickery-Shettlewroth Collection, with a…"

Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"Henry Fonda, Sheppard Strudwick, Anne Revere, Dorothy Matthews, and Joseph Cotton all played at the Playhouse early in their careers."

Guilford, Maine - MANUFACTURING - Page 1 of 2

"They sold beaded crafts, wooden checkers, and many more craft supplies. Drapers Mill was a supplier of box boards to other mills."

Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"Farnsworth Library and Art Museum. The Arts and Crafts of the Versatile Parson Fisher, 1768-1847, Downeast Books, 1967. (JF) Wood, Esther."

Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"… live reindeer, an Eskimo family, arts and crafts from children around the world, youth representing Youth for Christ International, and a Yule Log…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"The first regular packet (small sailing craft) line was established in 1859 between Islesboro and Belfast, bringing supplies to the islanders from a…"