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Historical Items

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Item 20500

Hurricane of 1892

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: 1892 Location: Brunswick Media: Photographic print

Item 108460

Cyclone damage, Searsport, 1921

Courtesy of Henry Gartley, an individual partner Date: 1921-05-22 Location: Searsport Media: Photographic print

Item 31171

Cyclone, Cotton Mill, Hallowell, 1895

Contributed by: Hubbard Free Library Date: 1895-12-31 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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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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Historic Hallowell - Disasters - Natural and Man-made

"… has come in many forms: freshets, fires, tornadoes and even train wrecks. Natural disasters have plagued Hallowell throughout its history, but…"

Site Page

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin apple tree, Bangor, ca. 1862

"… was heavily laden with apples when a September tornado split the tree and "laid the largest half on the ground." View additional information about…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Importance of Insects in Maine
by Charlene Donahue

Doing Insect surveys with the Maine Entomological Society