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Presque Isle: The Star City - Northern Maine Fair Memories - Page 3 of 3

"She eats her hotdogs and watches her grandkids and great grandkids have an awesome time just she as did when she was young."

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Eureka Hall, Stockholm

"It is a popular place for the local people to eat, and many people in the winter come up and end up eating there."

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

"In Vietnam, there was little to eat, steamed rice, vegetables, and whatever they could find for their supper."

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Historic Hallowell - Train Wreck Poem

"… There was a man who I must say is quite a bore Eating dinner with his wife The two of them were partners for life The two of them heard not a sound…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 1 of 3

"… to the school, you were allowed to go home to eat lunch. He would play football and baseball with the neighborhood kids."

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Historic Hallowell - Kennebec Wire Company

"… everything by candlelight: reading, writing, and eating. But with electricity, lights could stay on late at night, and the risk of fires from the…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Third Generation and Beyond

"… such Yankee sayings as “waste-not, want-not” or “eat it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without” or “if you keep something long enough…"

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Blue Hill, Maine - John Edward Horton, Civil War Soldier

"He mentions eating rice soup, bean soup, and bread and makes it clear that there was very little meat."

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Music in Maine - MAKE

"… as a gathering where you’re with good people, eating good food, with good music, and in a good place."

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"Q: Speaking of that, what did you eat? A: The first thing that was happening was that you were going to lose everything in your freezer and you were…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"He lived on a fox farm. “Keith come down and eat your breakfast!” Keith’s mom yelled. The brown haired 15 year old came down the stairs in his…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"When they caught more than they could eat, they traded it for flour, sugar, soap, molasses, and oil."

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Historic Hallowell - Lineman's Journal

"… duty CMP crew member, I was sitting on the couch eating pretzels with my daughter. It was 3:30 in the afternoon when I got a call from work saying…"

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

"… how the herring were turned into tasty ready-to-eat smoked fish. There was Rosemary Ranck, who at some point in 1975, walked into McCurdy’s."

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Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 3 of 4

"… the pomp) We have plenty of work – enough to eat – and with the cheering news from home each week we are full as happy as men could expect to be…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Benjamin Chesley

"… gave them milk, hides, and meat for them to eat. That way they don’t have to buy as much for their family because they will have it right at their…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"… was configured with a single downstairs bathroom, eat in kitchen and living room with two upstairs bedrooms accessed from a steep, narrow, winding…"

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Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"… summer, and brought it back to the villages to eat. Some would stay home and go river fishing, and night fishing."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"… a man coming around with ice and we would eat the small pieces. What was schooling like? I went to school in Thomaston."

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Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"There are baked goods, eating contests and crafts that help maintain Maine's heritage. The exhibit halls are a big part of the Blue Hill Fair for…"

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Pejepscot Historical Society

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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