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Interview with Willard Jalbert
Maine Folklife Center, Sound

Selection from an interview with Willard Jalbert about his work as a guide on the Allegash River. In the selection, Jalbert describes some of the parties of sports he guided on the Allegash and the way an Allegash trip could restore someone's health.

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Hunting guides
Outdoor recreation
Recreation/Tourism
Recreational therapy
Rivers
Tourism

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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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Letter from Robert Jalbert to Fern Stearns
Fogler Special Collections, Text

Letter from Robert Jalbert, an attorney in Fort Kent, to Mrs. Fern Sterns, regarding local objections to the proposed Dickey-Lincoln hydro-electric dam project. The Dickey-Lincoln dam was never built, due to lack of federal funding.

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Dams Environmental aspects
Dickey-Lincoln Hydro-Electric Project
Ecology/Energy
Environmentalism

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Winter
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 0:56:43

For those plants and animals that don't migrate south for winter, a lot of preparation goes into getting ready for winter. When it comes to dealing with winter, plants and animals know things we humans don't.

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Winter -- New England
Ecology/Energy
Seasons -- New England
Natural history -- New England

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Bioinvasion
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 00:58:03

As human activity silently globalizes our world, our modern day ecology is under onslaught from spreading alien organisms. These plants and animals are capable of moving aggressively into a habitat and monopolizing resources to the detriment of other species. Can scientists help us win the war against this bio-invasion?

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Invasive species
Ecology

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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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Moose lottery, Augusta, 1982
Maine Historical Society, Still Image

A large crowd was on hand to watch the second drawing of the Maine moose lottery in Augusta on May 19, 1982. Outdoor writer Bud Leavitt, at mike, read off the winners' names as Arnold Clay got the ticket holders' cards from Amy Winterbottom, 8, of Wayne, who was digging down deep in the large drum.

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Authors, Maine
Clay, Arnold
Clay, Arnold -- Photographs
Hunting -- Maine
Leavitt, Bud
Leavitt, Ralph, 1917-1994 -- Photographs
Lotteries -- Maine -- Augusta
Maine Moose Lottery
Moose -- Maine
Winterbottom, Amy
Winterbottom, Amy -- Photographs

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Edwin H. Eddy's recollection of his visit to a logging camp, 1880
Maine Historical Society, Text

Recollections of Edwin H. Eddy's visit to a logging camp near Moosehead Lake in 1880.

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Cutler, Thatcher & Company
Eddy, Edwin H.
Eddy, Edwin H. -- Personal narratives
Eddy, Johnathan
Lumber trade -- Maine
Lumbering -- Maine
Lumbermen -- Maine
Manuscripts
Moosehead Lake -- History

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Bodies In Motion: The Biomechanics of Sports
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 0:54:36

Using athletics, QUEST takes a fresh look at the way our bodies move. Bridging the gap between research and the playing field, coaches, trainers and athletes themselves discover how to optimize performance and what to do when injury causes that performance to fail.

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Biomechanics
Sports -- Physiological aspects
Human mechanics
Human locomotion

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Moose in Winter
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 0:02:16

To survive winter, moose need to feed heavily before it gets cold. They also drop their antlers around December or mid-January.

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Moose -- Wintering
Ecology/Energy

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