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Historical Items

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Item 66085

Tree climbing, Farmington, ca. 1917

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: circa 1917 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print

Item 76167

Climbing Flagpoles, Sugarloaf, 1971

Contributed by: Sugarloaf Mountain Ski Club through Ski Museum of Maine Date: 1971 Location: Carrabassett Valley Media: Photographic print

Item 82387

Civilian Conservation Corps tree climber, Bridgton, 1935

Contributed by: Maine Conservation Corps Date: 1935 Location: Bridgton Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Putting Men to Work, Saving Trees

While many Mainers were averse to accepting federal relief money during the Great Depression of the 1930s, young men eagerly joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's most popular programs. The Maine Forest Service supervised the work of many of the camps.

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Auto Racing in Maine: 1911

The novelty of organized auto racing came to Maine in 1911 with a hill-climbing event in Poland and speed racing at Old Orchard Beach. Drivers and cars came from all over New England for these events.

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Umbazooksus & Beyond

Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.

Site Pages

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Elmer Ellsworth Martin, Bangor, 1865

"… mother, Clara Cary Martin (1836-1902), stories; climbing a tree at center, and showing his father, John Martin (1823-1904), "what he and Junior…"

Site Page

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"The road followed the perimeter of the marsh and climbed Cornshop Hill to enter Dunstan. It would take two days to simply walk from Scarborough to…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"How to climb this smooth pole? It was decided that this feat should be accomplished by one of the first settlers of the first farm, and Adam Knight…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

The Point
by Norma K. Salway

In the summer, on the eastern shore of Songo, kids dove from a leaning tree

Story

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down