Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro to pages 91-132

"DeGarmo Brookes, comments on card playing, provides a program of an 1874 dance evening, Oliver Lunt's Dancing Academy, dances Martin sponsored, and…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ice Storm Poem

"… glaze from behind dark windows; playing cards by candlelight with battery-run radios humming to fill silence."

Lincoln, Maine - Nathaniel Bodwell

"Carding mills have to brush or card the wool before it can be spun into yarn for knitting or weaving into cloth."

Skowhegan Community History - Kennebec River Log Drive

"They read stories, played cards, and did anything that could interest them. In spring, workers from out of state came to drive the logs."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village

"W.W. Jordan ran a carding and novelty mill making good use of available water power. A short distance from the girst mill was a shoe shop owned by…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"In the evening they played a card game called whist, read novels, analyzed flowers and prepared animal specimens (e.g., stuffed birds), and took…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"… in the year 1812 and felled trees and started a carding mill, hauling the machinery from Lisbon by the way of Strong."

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"… built in 1803, salt factories, shoe factories, carding mills, blacksmith shops, and ice houses. John Elliott built a mill on Lemon Stream at the…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… and shipping industries, plus it housed a carding mill, tannery, stave mill, shingle mill, corn and barley gristmills."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… Historical Society Freda Hillman's Report Card Farmington Historical Society The rules regarding a student’s attendance at school were…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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