Maine Memory Network

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

"1910 with owner and workers posed is one example. Herring boxes and shooks at McCurdy's, Lubec, 1998Lubec Landmarks Herring boxes: The…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"Mr. Park was an active temperance worker and an able correspondent of the local papers. An excerpt from his diary reads: I packed my goods, loaded…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Taverns, People, and Scenes

"Workers or apprentices are shown working and drinking on their grog break. "At eleven o'clock on each day the bell would ring, the masons come…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"The work was demanding, with no set hours. Workers rushed to the factory whenever the whistle blew. The conditions were dismal."

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

"There she photographed two workers in the Brining Room who have been identified as Leeman Wilcox and Richard Munson."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"… complexes housed many of the less well-paid workers of the mills. According to a Rumford Falls Times article of August 4, 1923 by a Mr."

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

"… companies, had to provide housing for some of its workers, and did so, as Sanborn Insurance maps reveal."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"Knight returned to his land with some workers, or two of his sons, burned some of the felled trees in preparation of a garden, and used others to…"

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

"The workers were the lumberjacks who would work for months clearing acres of heavily forested land to finally send the logs down the Penobscot River…"

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

"… Sheds, the artifacts left there, and memories of workers help in understanding the work. Natalie Havens, who used to work at McCurdy’s, made an…"

Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"This included skilled nurses, social workers, home health aides, and physical, occupational, and speech therapists."

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

"Hundreds of workers, many of them Italian immigrants who had been working on the railroad in Machias, were drawn to the project with promises of high…"

Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals

"Many of the people in our town would be dead without the hospitals, which means there would be fewer jobs and workers."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"During the season workers came from Campobello, Grand Manan, Deer Island, and towns throughout Washington County, many living in rows of company…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"Warren Clark was a consistent and persistent hard worker and the New Portland Water District still serves part of the North Village."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"The closing of the mills would cost 561 workers their jobs and impact nearly half of the town’s tax income. Building of tissue mill, Lincoln, ca."

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

"Because of the increase of population, railroad workers felt that Stockholm needed its own railroad."

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"There were also usually two workers per farm. When a mother fox didn’t take care of her young and a cat on the farm just had a litter, the owners…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"Bridge Clubs were also popular. Houses were cleaned from top to bottom in order to prepare for club meetings."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… Telegram, Sunday June 11, 1939 Big House Little House Back House Barn. Thomas C. Hubka, University Press of New England, 1984 Eastern Argus, May…"

Music in Maine - Community Music

"… about techniques required to be a successful worker. Edward “Sandy” Ives (1925-2009) started the Northeast Folklore Society in 1959 at the…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"City workers took a 12.5 percent pay cut, and Bangor actively sought participation in every federal program to spur employment."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… for getting them [potatoes] to market.” While workers completed the road that linked Presque Isle to Houlton and then to the southern parts of the…"

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