Keywords: Loss of power
Item 74756
Bucket crew at work on power lines, 1969
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1969 Media: Photographic print
Item 74757
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1998 Media: Paint on cardboard
Exhibit
Walter Wyman's vision to capture the power of Maine's rivers to produce electricity led to the formation of Central Maine Power Co. and to a struggle within the state over what should happen to the power produced by the state's natural resources.
Exhibit
The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4
"People were out of work or on a wage scale that precluded any extra pleasure trips, and fewer people were riding the trolley to Portland for shopping."
Site Page
Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area
"This tribe first began to feel great losses as early as 1607 when the Popham expedition came to the mouth of the great Kennebec River."
Story
If You Knew My Story
by Anonymous (Maine State Prison)
A story about incarceration in Maine
Story
The Wall
by Michael Uhl
What it means to have beaten the odds
