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Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family

"Growing up, she learned how to make baskets which she sold until she turned 96. She spent many summers selling her wares in Rye Beach, New Hampshire."

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… pick berries, dig for clams, pick sweet grass for baskets and split ash for containers. This practice continued into the 1930s and ‘40s, until it…"

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Elusive Championship

"… off and swish, the basketball sunk through the basket! Hampden had won its first ever state championship! In an interview, Kim Haggan still vividly…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment

"… Wabanaki village to peruse and purchase handmade baskets and a host of other wares. In addition to goods that could be carried away in hand, some…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"Fancy porcupine-weave basket, Penobscot, 1862Abbe Museum Living in scattered homesteads and small hamlets, these hardscrabble settlers busied…"

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Abbe Museum

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… ash tool handles, canoes and paddles, and the ash baskets for the potato industry. With mechanization of logging and potato farming, the tribe’s…"