Keywords: fire wood
Item 9149
Pumper training, Millinocket, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Millinocket Fire Department Date: circa 1920 Location: Millinocket Media: Photograph on mounting board
Item 100055
The Triumph, Waldoboro, ca. 1872
Contributed by: Waldoboro Fire Department Date: circa 1872 Location: Waldoboro Media: Wood, metal
Exhibit
Looking Out: Maine's Fire Towers
Maine, the most heavily forested state in the nation, had the first continuously operational fire lookout tower, beginning a system of fire prevention that lasted much of the twentieth century.
Exhibit
A Riot of Words: Ballads, Posters, Proclamations and Broadsides
Imagine a day 150 years ago. Looking down a side street, you see the buildings are covered with posters and signs.
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Wood Products of Strong
"For a time birch pulp wood was shipped from Maine to him in Boston, but he soon realized that he needed to relocate his operations to a site where…"
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?
"A settler could either collect and sell the plain wood ash, or they could blanch it in a large vat, and boil it down to produce pot-ash (potash)."
Story
Tracers
by anonymous
tracers, bonding, and fixations
Story
making light
by David Johansen
My relationship with Maine and how and why I make neon lights here.
Lesson Plan
Longfellow's Ripple Effect: Journaling With the Poet - "The Fire of Drift-Wood"
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12, Postsecondary
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
This lesson is part of a series of six lesson plans that will give students the opportunity to become familiar with the works of Longfellow while reflecting upon how his works speak to their own experiences.
