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Historical Items

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Item 50973

Leslie Swandson mowing, Fairfield, 1920

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: 1920 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Item 53148

Lawn Mowing, Fairfield, ca. 1925

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1925 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Item 13631

Mowing hay, Houlton, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1895 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Shepard Cary: Lumberman, Legislator, Leader and Legend

Shepard Cary (1805-1866) was one of the leading -- and wealthiest -- residents of early Aroostook County. He was a lumberman, merchant, mill operator, and legislator.

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Songs of Winnebago

An enduring element of summer camps is the songs campers sing around the campfire, at meals, and on many other occasions. Some regale the camp experience and others spur the camp's athletes on to victory.

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Amazing! Maine Stories

These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.

Site Pages

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"They mowed the grass, and pitched their six canvas tents: a parlor tent, kitchen, pantry, three medium-sized sleeping tents, and one small tent."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works

"… places near the kilns so as to incumber as little mowing ground as possible. We could at present have five of our own teams, and we may next week…"

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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… with everything on a large scale: large farms and mowing fields, great piles of mussel-bed, with large barns and hay crops And...there were often…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

A Smart Horse
by Lynn Peasley Sanborn

The horse brings the hay home while the boys are swimming.

Story

Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR