Keywords: Motor Pool
Item 17920
WAC motor pool driver, Dow Air Field, Bangor, 1945
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: 1945-05-09 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print
Item 23267
Launch Topsy at Biddeford Pool, ca. 1910
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
At the heyday of trolleys in Maine, many of the trolley companies developed recreational facilities along or at the end of trolley lines as one further way to encourage ridership. The parks often had walking paths, dance pavilions, and various other entertainments. Cutting-edge technology came together with a thirst for adventure and forever changed social dynamics in the process.
Exhibit
Summer Folk: The Postcard View
Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4
"… skiff later adapted for use with an outboard motor. By 1910 engines began replacing sails and oars in lobster boats."
Story
Water is Music
by P Leone
Throughout her life water has played an important part
