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Historical Items

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Item 100438

Steamboat "Rainbow," Norcross, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Norcross Heritage Trust Date: circa 1915 Location: Indian Purchase Township No. 3 Media: Photographic print

Item 10165

Camp Runoia campers and staff launching boat on lake

Contributed by: Camp Runoia Date: 1910 Location: North Belgrade; Belgrade Lakes Media: Photographic print

Item 98551

Commonwealth Art Colony students on an outing to the Cuckolds, 1915

Contributed by: Boothbay Region Historical Society Date: 1915-07-17 Location: Boothbay Harbor Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Jameson & Wotton Wharf, Friendship

Since 1897, the Jameson & Wotton Wharf in Friendship has been an important addition to the community on Muscongus Bay. The wharf, which is accessible at all tides, was a steamboat stop for many years, as well as important to the lobster business.

Exhibit

Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

Exhibit

The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History

After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Summer Pleasures

"During the summer months Normie provides these very popular boat trips once or twice a week. Continued on next page"

Site Page

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

"In 1894 when the first steamboat began a daily trip between Swan’s Island and Rockland, supplies would be delivered by the steamboat."

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"The steamboat made a daily trip year-round from Swan’s Island to Stonington, Vinalhaven, Rockland and back."

My Maine Stories

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Story

In the midst of the tragedy of war, there are humorous moments
by Roger Ek, Seawolf 25

Never leave beer with the PBRs

Story

Seawolf Outhouse Robbery
by Roger Ek, Seawolf 25

How necessity creates invention, and the moving of an outhouse in Vietnam.

Story

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down