Keywords: Seaweed
Item 6297
Getting seaweed, Sheepscot Bay, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Media: Etching
Item 102610
Moss gatherer in boat, Scituate, Massachusetts, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Stanley Museum on deposit at Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Scituate Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
Following his historic flight across the Atlantic in May 1927, aviator Charles Lindbergh commenced a tour across America, greeted by cheering crowds at every stop. He was a day late for his speaking engagement in Portland, due to foggy conditions. Elise Fellows White wrote in her diary about seeing Lindbergh and his plane.
Exhibit
CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections
Explore topics around climate change by reuniting collections from one of the nation's earliest natural history museums, the Portland Society of Natural History. The exhibition focuses on how museums collect, and the role of humans in creating changes in society, climate, and biodiversity.
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4
"… but there may also be other sea creatures and seaweed as well. Legal lobsters are transferred to a holding tank on the boat, and those lobsters…"
Site Page
Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area
"… feasts, where they would cook on hot rocks, and seaweed. The Abenakis dried their seafood they caught during the summer, and brought it back to the…"
Story
This Girl Loves Seaweed
by Marianne
Marianne played with seaweed as a child now she collects photos of others with seaweed.
Story
Sarah Redmond Seaweed Farmer
by Sarah Redmond
Sarah explains the importance of seaweed and how she became a seaweed farmer