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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…"

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…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Learn More

"Prins, Downeast Press, 2009. Canoe Indians of Down East Maine, by William H. Haviland, The History Press, 2012."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Resources

"Islanders Real Life on the Maine Islands . Downeast Pub., 2005. Print. http://www.seacoastmission.org Many thanks to our island Historians: Dexter…"

Surry by the Bay - Late Twentieth Century

"Many of these visitors headed “downeast” towards Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island; some of them discovered Surry during their travels and…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1910-1920 - Page 1 of 2

"… Maine, from those in the blueberry territory of downeast Cherryfield, to southern Maine paper and silk manufacturing Westbrook, embraced this…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 1 of 3

"These early settlers in Downeast Maine were proficient navigators; they had to be, especially since this section of the Maine coast is very rocky…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 1 of 4

"… of 1762 when Joseph Wood and John Roundy sailed "downeast" from the Boston colony to a sheltering bay at the foot of the blue hill."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 4 of 4

"Leamon, James S. Revolution Downeast: The War for American Independence in Maine. Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1993."

Telephone Museum

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Lobstering

"… the Maine coast from Kittery north including Downeast Maine. Closed seasons, lobster size limits, licensing of fisherman, and protection of seed…"

Winter Harbor Historical Society

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Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"It was published in November or 1980 in DownEast Magazine. BIBLIOGRAPHY Source materials integral to the production of the radio broadcast and…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"… and long-lasting waterfront industries in Downeast Maine. Looking into McCurdy’s in 1986. Jacob B."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… Orrin Donnell (of Sullivan, Maine), sailed Downeast from Boston. On July 4 they established “Camp Pemetic” on Wasgatt Cove in Northeast Harbor…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"… Crafts of the Versatile Parson Fisher, 1768-1847, Downeast Books, 1967. (JF) Wood, Esther. Deep Roots: A Maine Legacy, 1990.---(SORL) Wood, Esther."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Taverns, People, and Scenes

"… to say drunkenness and fistfights did not occur Downeast, but simply that it was easier for our ancestors to behave badly away from the eyes of…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Bootleggers vs. Police

"… craft for bootleggers brought a brisk business to Downeast boatyards. Prohibition liquor hiding techniques: Victrola before, Portland, ca."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4

"… resourceful to make a living in a small town in downeast Maine. The mix of long-time residents and new migrants has helped make Blue Hill a…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… reinstituted recently with the advent of Amtrak’s Downeaster service between Boston and Portland. The Boston & Maine still exists and its one…"

Music in Maine - Community Music

"… regularly lead dance workshops at Maine’s annual DownEast Country Dance Festival and the New England Folk Festival as well as schools statewide for…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… of the two mainstays of the economy of coastal Downeast Maine. From the 1880s to the end of the 20th century, Lubec and Eastport were the twin…"