Keywords: Rusticators
Item 33997
Rusticators, Blue Hill, 1907, 1907
Contributed by: Blue Hill Public Library Date: 1907 Location: Blue Hill Media: Photographic print
Item 33996
Contributed by: Blue Hill Public Library Date: 1907 Location: Blue Hill Media: Photographic print
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."
Exhibit
For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication
"Rustication Steamship "Mount Desert," leaving Southwest Harbor, ca. 1900 In the 19th and early 20th centuries, steamship was the preferred…"
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Northeast Harbor: Rustic to Rusticators
"Northeast Harbor: Rustic to Rusticators Northeast Harbor Fleet Race, ca. 1930Great Harbor Maritime Museum In 1761, Abraham Somes moved his…"
Story
Rug Hooking Project with a Story
by Marilyn Weymouth Seguin
My grandmother taught me the Maine craft of rug hooking when I was a child.
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars