Keywords: Stone experts
Item 100533
Moses Greenleaf to David James on slate, Williamsburg, 1834
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1834 Location: Williamsburg Media: Ink on paper
Item 100531
Letter concerning discovery of slate vein in Brownville, 1833
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1833-07-01 Location: Brownville Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
While numerous Mainers worked for and against woman suffrage in the state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some also worked on the national level, seeking a federal amendment to allow women the right to vote
Exhibit
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
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"… skill in dealing with the salt-water environment, expertly handling canoes and hunting seal and porpoise."
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"For years they used Basques as expert whalers on their ships. Whale oil is rarely used today, so modern whaling is mainly hunting the whales for…"
Story
Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall
Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.
