Keywords: Plants
Item 135820
"Plants visited by Bees," Weld, 1980
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1980 Location: Weld Media: Pencil and watercolor on paper
Item 135842
Furbish's Lousewort, Van Buren, 1880
Contributed by: New England Botanical Society Date: 1880 Location: Van Buren Media: Botanical specimen
Item 86268
Power Plant, Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Central Wharf Proprietors Use: Power Plant
Item 88127
Power Plant, Island Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Charles Brown Use: Power Plant
Item 109925
Blaine House existing plantings, Augusta, 1987-1988
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1987–1988 Location: Augusta Client: State of Maine Architect: State of Maine Department of Transportation
Item 111308
Central Maine Power plant, Skowhegan, 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1920–1921 Location: Skowhegan Client: Central Maine Power Co. Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Wiscasset generated electricity from 1972 until 1996. Activists concerned about the plant's safety led three unsuccessful referendum campaigns in the 1980s to shut it down.
Exhibit
WWI Memorial Trees along Portland's Baxter Boulevard
On Memorial Day of 1920, the City of Portland planted 100 Linden trees on Forest Avenue, each dedicated to the memory of one military service member who had died in World War I, or who had served honorably.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin homestead, Bangor, ca. 1864
"… began writing in 1864, provides details of each planting and other elements, all numbered on the drawing. It appears on page 477 of the journal."
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's plow, Hampden, ca. 1833
"… in his journal and other accounts about his gardens and plantings. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."
Story
Finding and cooking fiddleheads with my parents
by Brian J. Theriault
My father has been picking and eating fiddleheads almost all his life, Mom prepares and stores them
Story
Paul Gagne: Living a life fully engaged in his community
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
A man with a wide range of skills and talents shares them for the benefit of his community
Lesson Plan
Why is Maine the Pine Tree State?
Grade Level: K-2
Content Area: Social Studies
This lesson plan will give students in early elementary grades a foundation for identifying the recognizable animals and natural resources of Maine. In this lesson, students will learn about and identify animals and plants significant to the state, and will identify what types of environments are best suited to different types of plant and animal life. Students will have the opportunity to put their own community wildlife into a large-scale perspective.
Lesson Plan
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: Science & Engineering, Social Studies
This lesson plan will give middle and high school students a broad overview of the ash tree population in North America, the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) threatening it, and the importance of the ash tree to the Wabanaki people in Maine. Students will look at Wabanaki oral histories as well as the geological/glacial beginnings of the region we now know as Maine for a general understanding of how the ash tree came to be a significant part of Wabanaki cultural history and environmental history in Maine. Students will compare national measures to combat the EAB to the Wabanaki-led Ash Task Force’s approaches in Maine, will discuss the benefits and challenges of biological control of invasive species, the concept of climigration, the concepts of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and how research scientists arrive at best practices for aiding the environment.
