Keywords: Log splitting
Item 104781
Men competing in a log chopping competition, Lake Maranacook, 1935
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1935-06-26 Location: Winthrop ; Readfield Media: glass negative
Item 6239
Passamaquoddy basket, Clara and Rocky Keezer, ca. 1993
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1993 Location: Perry Media: Split ash and sweet grass, Digital photograph
Exhibit
Holding up the Sky: Wabanaki people, culture, history, and art
Learn about Native diplomacy and obligation by exploring 13,000 years of Wabanaki residence in Maine through 17th century treaties, historic items, and contemporary artworks—from ash baskets to high fashion. Wabanaki voices contextualize present-day relevance and repercussions of 400 years of shared histories between Wabanakis and settlers to their region.
Exhibit
CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections
Explore topics around climate change by reuniting collections from one of the nation's earliest natural history museums, the Portland Society of Natural History. The exhibition focuses on how museums collect, and the role of humans in creating changes in society, climate, and biodiversity.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Third Generation and Beyond
"… and sheds in Asticou were routinely moved, split up, and expanded as needed to suit the occupants, giving true meaning to such Yankee sayings as…"
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement
"… of $300 from the Estate of William Bingham and split the lot North/South between them. Despite purchasing the lot sometime around 1820, the deeds…"
Story
Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall
Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.
