Keywords: Birds
Item 64136
Bird hunting, Strong, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Strong Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Strong Media: Photographic print
Item 54646
The Bird Sanctuary, Fairfield, ca. 1936
Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1936 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print
Item 90172
Bird property, W. Side Sunset Road, Cliff Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Henry Bird Use: Summer Dwelling
Item 72464
49 Revere Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Adelbert J. Bird Use: Dwelling - Three Family
Item 111533
Will Bird House, Rockland, 1897
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1897 Location: Rockland Client: Will Bird Architect: John Calvin Stevens
Item 116286
John Bird Co. block, Rockland, 1898
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1898 Location: Rockland Client: John Bird Co. Architect: John Calvin Stevens
Exhibit
Hiking, Art and Science: Portland's White Mountain Club
In 1873, a group of men, mostly from Portland, formed the second known hiking club in the U.S., the White Mountain Club of Portland, to carry out their scientific interests, their love of hiking and camaraderie, and their artistic interests in painting and drawing the features of several of the White Mountains.
Exhibit
Maine's ample woods historically provided numerous game animals and birds for hunters seeking food, fur, or hides. The promotion of hunting as tourism and concerns about conservation toward the end of the nineteenth century changed the nature of hunting in Maine.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Birds Eye mobil combine, Aroostook County, ca. 1960
"Birds Eye mobil combine, Aroostook County, ca. 1960 Contributed by Oakfield Historical Society Description A Birdseye mobil combine for…"
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Industry on Bombahook
"Birds eye view map, Hallowell, 1878 Bombahook is the peninsula on the left side of the image. Click on the picture to zoom in for a closer…"
Story
Ivory-billed Woodpeckers
by Doug Hitchcox, Staff Naturalist at Maine Audubon
The Ivory-billed Woodpecker in the Portland Society of Natural History Collections
Story
Making the wapi-kuhkukhahs / Snowy Owl basket
by Gabriel Frey and Gal Frey
A story of a mother and son artistic collaboration.
Lesson Plan
Longfellow Studies: "The Poet's Tale - The Birds of Killingworth"
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: English Language Arts, Science & Engineering, Social Studies
This poem is one of the numerous tales in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Tales of the Wayside Inn. The collection was published in three parts between 1863 and 1873. This series of long narrative poems were written by Longfellow during the most difficult personal time of his life. While mourning the tragic death of his second wife (Fanny Appleton Longfellow) he produced this ambitious undertaking. During this same period he translated Dante's Inferno from Italian to English. "The Poet's Tale" is a humorous poem with a strong environmental message which reflects Longfellow's Unitarian outlook on life.