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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Bootleggers vs. Police

"Building such craft for bootleggers brought a brisk business to Downeast boatyards. Prohibition liquor hiding techniques: Victrola before…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

"In 1750, the Settlers of Harpswell established their own separate parish, and, eight years later, incorporated as a distinct town."

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"… villages up and down the coast sent men and boats offshore. Granite and limestone quarries employed locals in quarrying and Maine ships in the…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"… free of pollution and are suitable for swimming, boating, and fishing in the Rumford area as a result of the efforts of United States Senator…"

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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"… the library got computers for public use, and a boat launch was installed on the Piscataquis River."

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Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4

"Later came winches, buckets and sluices. In the early Seventies, John McCurdy installed a major innovation, illustrated at the end of Part II."

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"… and sharp-roofed houses, its odd-looking boats and winding streets...The large engraving is accompanied by two smaller framed pictures, showing…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"They were planning to return to Falmouth to start over again, but on their way they stopped at a neighbor’s house four miles away in Canton, where…"

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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"and blocked transportation for everyone, even by boat. Although these situations occurred, the people of Hallowell were not alone."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"… a space big enough -- a barn, a warehouse, or a boat house -- it was likely someone had hammered a basketball hoop to the wall."

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Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"He also claimed that the idea came to him “in a vision.” It is more likely that the location was chosen to make the operation less accessible to…"

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Travel was by boat. By 1790 North Lubec, with a population of 245, was far more developed than Flagg’s Point (Lubec)."

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Acadian Archives

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"People traveled by streams, rivers, ponds, lakes and long tidal estuaries and bays. This was a ready-made transportation system for settlers who were…"

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Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"He was shooting from the deck of the boat he was sailing with his brother to Prince Edward Island. Both canneries were important operations later in…"

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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