Keywords: Fish Beach
Item 100886
Fish weirs at Tarbox Cove, Westport Island, ca. 1908
Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: circa 1908 Location: Westport Island Media: Postcard
Item 101379
Cleaning fish, Monhegan, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Monhegan Museum Date: circa 1880 Location: Monhegan Media: Photographic print
Item 86395
Dyer property, Beach Road, Cliff Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Harriet A. Dyer Use: Fish House
Item 86292
Hall property, Beach Road, Cliff Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Benjamin G. Hall Use: Summer Dwelling
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
Washington County Through Eastern's Eye
Images taken by itinerant photographers for Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company, a real photo postcard company, provide a unique look at industry, commerce, recreation, tourism, and the communities of Washington County in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Welcome to Swan's Island!
"… and turns of these island lives, and find out for yourself which stories are 'history' and which live on! Fine Sand beach, Swan's Island X"
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake
"The salmon and brook trout are occasionally stocked to make fishing even more popular. See Maine Fish Species Return to Student Research"
Story
Ogunquit Beach Sonnet
by Shannon Schooley
Sonnet written for school when I was 12 years old.
Story
Warming Oceans
by David Reidmiller, Gulf of Maine Research Institute
The rate of warming in the Gulf of Maine is faster than that of more than 95% of the world’s oceans
Lesson Plan
Maine Monochromatic Oceanscape
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: Visual & Performing Arts
This lesson plan will give students an overview of the creatures that live in the Gulf of Maine, real and imagined. Students will be able to describe the creatures they learn about, first learning simple art skills, and then combining these simple skills to make an Oceanscape picture that is complex.