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Historical Items

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Item 104436

Frank Loring, Indian Island, ca. 1901

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1901 Location: Old Town Media: Postcard

Item 80725

Frank “Big Thunder” Loring, ca. 1884

Contributed by: Abbe Museum Date: circa 1884 Location: Indian Island; Old Town Media: Postcard

Item 80727

Frank “Big Thunder” Loring, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Abbe Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Indian Island; Old Town Media: Postcard

Online Exhibits

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Songs of Winnebago

An enduring element of summer camps is the songs campers sing around the campfire, at meals, and on many other occasions. Some regale the camp experience and others spur the camp's athletes on to victory.

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Umbazooksus & Beyond

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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400 years of New Mainers

Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.

Site Pages

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"Big Thunder Frank "Big Thunder" Loring, ca. 1890Abbe Museum Big Thunder Towering in height and personality, Frank “Big Thunder” Loring…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"1909Jesup Memorial Library Frank “Big Thunder” Loring, ca. 1884Abbe Museum Mount Desert Island began to change both culturally and…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"… going to church “looked like a bird-of-paradise in a barn-yard.” From Bar Harbor Days, by Mrs. Burton Harrison, 1887. Continue to Big Thunder"

My Maine Stories

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Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler

How hunting has impacted my life