Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Summary: The Future: Recycle or Start from Scratch?

"… such as modular construction or patterned, pre-sealed ply-woods along with power assembly tools including portable saws and nail guns make a…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement

"… William Roberts, a carpenter, settled first in Seal Harbor, and later along the eastern shore of Northeast Harbor."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"… fires, muskrat stews simmered, fish sizzled in seal oil, and Indian frybread bubbled up in hot lard."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"… sporting parties to places where porpoise and seal may be shot. Guns and ammunition furnished when desired."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Island Postmistresses

"… time Letters were merely folded and secured with sealing wax no envelopes were used Postage was charged according to the distance the letter was…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 1 of 5

"… Historical Society Town of Dixfield seal, 1988Dixfield Historical Society Following the Revolutionary War, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Business as Usual

"Advertisements like this promised a "plain sealed case" would arrive in the mail. McGlinchey's Brewery, Portland, ca."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"… of the local church congregation in Northeast and Seal Harbors, perhaps as early as 1935. Charles carefully watched Mr."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"… out on his own or with fellow tribesmen to hunt seals or gulls from the shores of other islands on the Maine seacoast."

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… was constructed at a place called Wasaumkeag (the seal place) in what is today Fort Point in Stockton Springs."

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

"… to almost everything, including fish and seals. Once lobsters become more active, they are very hungry and are caught in higher numbers."

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"… guardianship of her daughter, Mina, and died in Seal Harbor (where she lived with Mina for just one month) on December 5, 1925, at the age of 84."

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"… sea spearing for (Passamaquoddy) porpoises and seals. Fall/Winter - Before the frosts came, the women and children went into the forests to forage…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… Job, Lime, Lasell, Ensign to the south; Ram and Seal to the west. The Precambrian rocks of 700 Acre, Lime and Lasell Islands are some of the oldest…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… them to the factories, cooked the sardines and sealed the cans. Until child labor laws were instituted in the 1930s children, using sharp knives…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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