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Grandmother Marden Feeding Chickens
Maine Folklife Center, Still Image

Photograph of Grandmother Marden scattering feed for a group of chickens.

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Agriculture
Chickens
Farming/Agriculture
Poultry

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A Love for the Land
MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:25:36

The legacy of Maine's farmers is the open farmland they shaped from the wooded rocky terrain. Their story is an inspiring tale of hardship, innovation, and remarkable endurance. As agriculture heads into the next century, "HOME" looks back at the last century of farming in Maine.

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Agricultural resources -- Maine
Natural resources -- Maine
Maine -- Social life and customs
Maine -- History
Agriculture -- Maine
Farming/Agriculture
Farm life-- History

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A Place Apart
MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 00:27:01

Maine is a place apart from the mainstream of American society. Beginning early in Maine’s history, settlers, merchants, visitors, artists, and writers brought images of Maine to the rest of the world that shaped the State's economy, identity, and heritage. The history behind the image of Maine remains a vital part of how we and those from away view Maine today.

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Maine heritage
European settlement
History - Colonial Period

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Haying, Belgrade Lakes, Maine
Fogler Special Collections, Still Image

Postcard, "Haying, Belgrade Lakes, Maine." Shows two men loading hay onto wagon.

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Agriculture
Farming/Agriculture
Hay Harvesting

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Men haying with a horse and wagon
Maine State Archives, Still Image

Photo of men haying with a horse and wagon

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Agriculture
Environment: Fur trade, survival, industrial development, forest, conservation
Farming/Agriculture
Haying

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People of the dawn
MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:26:37

The first and longest lasting period of Maine’s history is the world of the Native American, stretching from the retreat of the last Ice Age, 12,000 years to the present. People of the Dawn tells the story of the dynamic people who’ve inhabited the landscape of Maine.

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Native Americans
Canoes and canoeing
Maliseet Tribe
Micmac Tribe
Penobscot Tribe
Passamaquoddy Tribe
Wabanaki Tribe

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The Nation's Playground
MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 00:28:01

With its remarkable coastline, deep-green forest, and rolling landscape, Maine has been a favorite place for visitors for over a century. During the late 1800s, trains and steamboats brought visitors to every corner of the state. Over the last century, tourism has grown into Maine’s largest industry.

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Recreation/Tourism
Tourism -- Maine -- History

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The Gene Scene
Science, Text

This website is a student educational website on the human genome project providing extensive information as well as interactive games, quizzes, and puzzles for additional learning.

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Use of Scythe to Cut Hay
Maine Folklife Center, Still Image

Two photographs of a man swinging a scythe to cut hay, on Hog Island.

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Agriculture
Farming/Agriculture
Hay Harvesting
Scythes

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Rolling back the frontier
MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:26:45

In the 1600s, European settlers left everything they knew to take advantage of Maine’s abundant resources. Despite back-breaking work, a harsh climate, and cultural clashes, they successfully carved out a new life for themselves. But by the end of the century, most of them would leave Maine in fear and live for years as war refugees.

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Native Americans
Settlements

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