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Historical Items

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Item 105898

Squirrel Island, Southport, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Southport Media: Glass Plate Negative

Item 27014

Bay View House Booklet, Islesboro, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Islesboro Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Islesboro Media: Ink on paper

Item 105873

Cottages at Long Cove Point, Bristol, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1920 Location: Bristol Media: Glass Plate Negative

Online Exhibits

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Summer Camps

Maine is home to dozens of summer-long youth camps and untold numbers of day camps that take advantage of water, woods, and fresh air. While the children, counselors, and other staff come to Maine in the summer, the camps live on throughout the year and throughout the lives of many of the campers.

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Summer's Favorite Game

Baseball often is called the National Pastime. For many people, baseball is encountered in the backyard and down the street, a game played by a few or the full contingent of a team.

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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."

Site Pages

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"… Middle School student Walking Tour of Historic Summer Street No neighborhood is more reminiscent of Hampden’s 19th century past than that of Summer…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"The Dark Harbor summer residents enjoyed the pleasures of the Tarratine Club, offering golf in the 1890s, yachting in the 1920s and tennis in the…"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"… its waters, canoeing to the headwaters each summer, and living in villages farther up river each winter."

My Maine Stories

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Summers on Peaks
by Anna Greenfield

Memories of being a summer visitor and visiting Peaks Island

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Jim Murphy-living a multi-dimensional life
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center Voices of Biddeford project

Life influences: Irish/Quebec ancestry, seminary, Navy, community businesses and organizations.

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In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood

An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.