Keywords: Boats to Let
Item 22074
Gilpatrick's Cove and Rock End Dock, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Great Harbor Maritime Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print
Item 28816
Eastern Promenade and Tukey's Bridge, Portland, ca. 1912
Contributed by: Seashore Trolley Museum Date: circa 1912 Location: Portland Media: Postcard
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
Scientist, author and explorer Donald B. MacMillan established Wiscasset as his homeport for many of the voyages he made to the Arctic region starting in the early 1920s.
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Farming
"Sheep would often be put on a boat and brought to one of the smaller outer islands for grazing. The independence of islanders to raise their own food…"
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry
"However, if anything is apparent from the island’s history, it is the fact that Swan’s islanders have faced and adapted to challenges since the first…"
Story
Childhood Memories of Learning to Swim on Rangeley Lake
by Betty C.
Betty's two older sisters taught her how to swim on Rangeley Lake.
Story
Seawolf Outhouse Robbery
by Roger Ek, Seawolf 25
How necessity creates invention, and the moving of an outhouse in Vietnam.
