Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 3 of 3

"… my mother wasn’t working, she enjoyed riding the buffalos she tended. She liked to pick flowers in a local field, and watch the clouds go by."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 2 of 3

"My mother had to herd five water buffalos, and my father worked in rice and peanut fields. They both got little pay on some days, no pay on others."

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 2 of 3

"Buffalo/bison processing is 40 cents per pound dressed, $100 to kill. Deer processing is $60 to $130 to kill depending on size."

Music in Maine - Sacred Music

"… Melodeons are keyboard instruments invented in Buffalo, New York in the 1830s. Similar to accordions, melodeons use reeds and airflow to create…"