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Keywords: Seaweed

Historical Items

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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

Item 15456

Harold Coffin, Cape Elizabeth, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Cape Elizabeth Media: Glass Negative

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

We Saw Lindbergh!

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 Pages

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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…"

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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…"

My Maine Stories

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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

Story

Ogunquit Beach Sonnet
by Shannon Schooley

Sonnet written for school when I was 12 years old.