Maine Memory Network

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… to difficulties which no other part of the State labors under; on the one hand harassed by the British and commanded to bear a part in the…"

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

"… Historic McCurdy’s understand the process and the hard work involved. Also left behind was example of an “improved” item, a wheeled cart."

Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"And that was hard work. I never could dig clams. I’ve tried it. That was all the work there was and it was very sad for people."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"It was almost entirely handwork, with hardly any mechanical assist. This was not a process people went to school to learn about or read a book on how…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"Apart from the fishing industry, many laborers were attracted to Swan’s Island’s quarries. The largest of these, the Baird's Quarry in Minturn…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3

"… work the fields performed hard, back-breaking labor to earn what the city provided. "The paupers off the Farm have been employed in labor upon the…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 13 of 17

"… by so doing we can contribute in the least to soften the hard labor before you.” Read a transcription of this letter, "Soldiers of Biddeford" "

Guilford, Maine - EXHIBITS

"… A community that works hard will often play hard and Guilford has always enjoyed its infrequent respites from labor."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

"Swan’s Island fishermen worked hard and were successful at their trade. Captain William Herrick was one of the successful fishermen."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Narrative History: Maine Swedish Colony

"… them - free - to anyone willing to put in the labor required to clear roads and create a farmstead."

Music in Maine - Community Music

"… through traditional music and dance.” Songs of Labor Luther Hall's Camp - Grand Lake Narrows Sebois, 1920Patten Lumbermen's Museum From…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"By dint of hard labor and peeseverance we after much trouble arrived at Mann Hill house. Ayers stopped and helped me unload. Set up stove etc."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… there were 115 miners in town, not counting the laborers and teamsters employed by the mines. In early 1880 there were 29 mining companies in Blue…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"… farmer and needed to return to the hard labor of logging. The next winter he went with a crew of men to work at a location twelve miles into the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"Initially, native people benefited from labor opportunities in lumbering and agriculture. They produced ash tool handles, canoes and paddles, and the…"

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"… influx in population, caused by the many incoming laborers and their families. The lumbering business made Bangor into a global provider for timber."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 3 of 5

"… underneath the bridge, and $250 for lumber and labor. Guilford and Sangerville split the expense."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… particularly from foreign countries where labor wages were much cheaper, netting has become much less remunerative for the hard work involved."

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… fair, it was held on the Saturday following Labor Day and featured livestock judging, horse and oxen pulling, and an assortment of carnival rides…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Two thousand civilians labored around the clock during that spring to build the new Army cantonment which became known as Dow Field."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"In 1860 he was a laborer on the farm of Joshua Allen in Walpole, MA. He enlisted from Cambridgeport, MA, in Company D, 74th New York Infantry on July…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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