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Moving Image		The Glidden Shell Heaps MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 0:00:39 The Glidden Point Midden is over 20 feet high. It is not a typical shell midden. It is an industrial site. (Relevance: 515) Find Similar Resources	Oysters Ecology/Energy Oceanography Damariscotta (Me.) -- Antiquities. Indians of North America -- Maine -- Damariscotta -- Antiquities

Artifact		Indian Antiquities of the Kennebec Valley Maine State Museum, Artifact Original Manuscript: Indian Antiquities of the Kennebec Valley, 1892, by Charles G. Willoughby. 130 pages of text and 22 hand drawn and painted plates of objects. Maroon leather cover. Brown, blue, red and white marble inner cover. Book plates for Charles Clark Willoughby and Alice Stanwood Willoughby. (Relevance: 508) Find Similar Resources	Native Americans Wabanaki

Sound		Interview with Alida Camp about family summers in Blue Hill Maine Folklife Center, Sound Selection from an interview with Alida Camp, a longtime summer, and later year-round, resident of East Blue Hill, conducted by Pamela Dean. Camp describes how her family came to East Blue Hill, their first house there, and her relationship with the children of their outdoor staff. (Relevance: 506) Find Similar Resources	Recreation/Tourism Summer people Vacation homes

Moving Image		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? (Relevance: 499) Find Similar Resources	Invasive species Ecology

Text		Petition and report regarding stopping emigration from Quebec due to cholera epidemic Maine State Archives, Text Two petitions for reimbursement for expenses in stopping the influx of immigrants from Quebec during the cholera epidemic. (Relevance: 496) Find Similar Resources	Epidemics Cholera External Forces: economic, demographic, technology, disease, wars Quebec Settlements

Sound		Interview with Alida Camp about Servants Maine Folklife Center, Sound Selection from an interview with Alida Camp, a longtime summer, and later year-round, resident of East Blue Hill, conducted by Pamela Dean. Mrs. Camp talks about her relationships with local people as both friends and servants, having a full house of children in the summer, her mother's household arrangements with "hot and cold running maids", the running of a house with a full staff of servants, and names as indicators of class divisions (Relevance: 494) Find Similar Resources	Domestics Recreation/Tourism Summer people Vacation homes

Moving Image		A Part of the Main MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:26:01 As Europeans began to look seriously towards Maine as a desirable economic region, there were many debates about who owned or controlled the varied and plentiful natural resources, especially timber. In the mid-1800’s, the timber harvest from the communities in the far north woods traveled via the river communities to the prosperous coast where the wealth of natural resources set sail for the world beyond. Today, these distinct regions remain intact, each with a different story to tell about how history has played itself out since that time. (Relevance: 491) Find Similar Resources	Natural resources Settlements Lumbering Shipping/Shipbuilding

Moving Image		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. (Relevance: 481) Find Similar Resources	Agricultural resources -- Maine Natural resources -- Maine Maine -- Social life and customs Maine -- History Agriculture -- Maine Farming/Agriculture Farm life-- History

Text		Letter from A. R. Robinson to Lucretia Turner Fogler Special Collections, Text Letter from (Mrs.?) A. R. Robinson of Portland, Maine, to Mrs. Lucretia Turner of Deer Isle. The letter discusses the room preferences of Mrs. Robinson and her party for the summer, and also where individuals will get their board, or food, during their summer visit to Deer Isle. This type of boarding was common during the early period of summer tourism on the Maine coast. Some coastal and island residents would vacate their homes for the summer in order to accommodate tourists, while others rented out spare rooms. (Relevance: 449) Find Similar Resources	Food Recreation/Tourism Tourism Vacation rentals

Sound		Interview with Clarence Harding Maine Folklife Center, Sound Selection from an interview with Clarence Harding, a lobster fisherman from the Mount Desert Island area. In the selection, Harding talks about the daily schedule of lobstering, the hard work necessary to succeed, and changes in type of bait used. (Relevance: 430) Find Similar Resources	Baitfish Fishing/Fisherman Lobster fishers Quality of work life

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