Maine Memory Network

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Water Transportation

"… after determining that the Brann was too small to handle all the traffic to and from the mainland, the boat was taken out of service so that…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"The metal rake or “clam hoe” has a short 12”-18” handle, so the digger must bend at the waist often in mud to the knees to dig through the tidal mud…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - About the Team

"A total of about 60 students learned how to handle, scan or photograph and document historical arifacts and memorabilia."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"… dealing with the salt-water environment, expertly handling canoes and hunting seal and porpoise. Swan’s Island may have attracted this tribe as a…"

Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"During this period, the office handled four hundred commissions in fifty Maine communities across the state. In 1896, George M."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background

"… which the original items were consulted and handled in person; preservation concerns; the overall breadth and uniqueness of the holdings; the…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 4 of 4

"… extending far enough beyond the end to serve as handles.” (P. 456). Hall was not correct when he said herring sticks were the “ only equipment used…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - About Us

"… brief lesson in museum practices, such as how to handle artifacts properly and how to photograph objects without causing damage."

Guilford, Maine - Guilford Schools

"… space available to serve as a school as well as handle the affairs of the town of Guilford. By 1880 all Guilford Village school age children…"

Lincoln, Maine - Workman's Hospital

"… Hospital was very small, and they couldn’t handle very many patients at one time. The people of Lincoln were disappointed and decided to work…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4

"… clams had become more automated, the manner of handling clams remained the same. The largest clam dealer of several in the 1900s was Thurston &…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"… shovel blocks.” Everyone used the same long-handled dipper to drink from the pail of fresh water."

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"Local rescue teams were trained to handle injuries that might occur from an invasion or bombing A look out station, with the code name Esther 74, was…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"… machines that were repaired enough to handle the shorter distances of island travel. Public services also expanded with time."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… mills to produce lumber and shingles, shovel handles, grains from the grist mills, cheese and starch making facilities, and wool carding products…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… pins, clothespins, shingles, barrels, tool handles. While water provided the power, the forests and fields provided the raw materials: first and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… an electric light company was set up that could handle 5,000 lamps. By 1882 Rodick House, now the largest summer hotel in America, could hold 600…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"The tree’s branches had to be handled carefully as this tree represented Presque Isle and Maine and was to be viewed by hundreds of thousands of…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"… was extremely economical, because it could be handled with a smaller crew and could contain more cargo."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"… arose but if they did the teachers knew how to handle them. In Scarborough at 350: Linking the Past to the Present Rodney Laughton explained how…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"… extensively, with other vegetables and fruit handled. While under the management of Merrill Bros., meat was also canned. Charles E."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"… and struggle up on a cold, wet, cheerless deck to handle cold, wet lines and colder, wetter fish, all for the ‘experience,' will never be known…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

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

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"… enough to support at least two canneries, which handled vegetables, fruits and meat. Merrill Brothers at Cumberland Junction had a capacity for…"