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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: 500) Find Similar Resources	Agricultural resources -- Maine Natural resources -- Maine Maine -- Social life and customs Maine -- History Agriculture -- Maine Farming/Agriculture Farm life-- History

Text		History of Penobscot Indians Fogler Special Collections, Text Account of the "History of Penobscot Indians" by Florence Nicola Shay (Relevance: 499) Find Similar Resources	Native Americans -- History Penobscot Indian Nation Penobscot Tribe

Moving Image		Maine's Harvesters of the Sea Northeast Historic Film, Moving Image, 00:27:31 Narration and appearance by artist Laurence Sisson. Fishermen in trawlers, draggers, purse seiners and lobster boats. Fishing for cod, haddock, whiting, ocean perch, shrimp and lobster. (Relevance: 498) Find Similar Resources	Fisheries Fishing/Fisherman Fishery resources Natural resources Lobster industry

Moving Image		Turn of the Tide Northeast Historic Film, Moving Image, 00:48:39 Dramatic film about formation of a Maine fishermen's cooperative, shot in Port Clyde, Maine, with an unsynchronized sound track. The cast is local fishermen. Film made to educate people about advantages of lobster cooperatives. (Relevance: 494) Find Similar Resources	Lobster industry Outdoor life Fishing/Fisherman Shipping/Shipbuilding

Moving Image		Penobscot Bay Northeast Historic Film, Moving Image Tour of the Penobscot Bay with commentary by the Director of the Maine Island Institute. Features lobstermen hauling traps, discussion of island life, and saling onboard an authentic windjammer and 58-foot ocean racer. (Relevance: 479) Find Similar Resources	Coasts, Islands Maritime/Waterfront Penobscot Bay (Me.)

Sound		Interview with Earnest Maloney Maine Folklife Center, Sound Selection from an interview with Ernest Maloney of Port Clyde, Maine, about lobstering in a Friendship Sloop. In the selection, Maloney describes a typical day on the sloop, living conditions aboard, oil clothes, and hauling traps. (Relevance: 460) Find Similar Resources	Fishing/Fisherman Friendship sloops Lobster fishers

Text		Webb family reminiscences about Samuel Webb, 1696-1785 Maine Historical Society, Text Historical reminiscences by Seth Webb about Samuel Webb of Redrift, England, a captain of a slave ship who was poisoned by African natives and whose son, Samuel, made his escape back to England and then ran away to America, was captured by pirates, and eventually moved to the Maine frontier during King George's War. (Relevance: 438) Find Similar Resources	Slave ships Slavery -- Africa Slavery -- England Webb family Webb, Margaret Webb, Samuel Webb, Samuel, 1696-1785 Webb, Seth -- Personal narratives Webb, Susanna Yucatan (Ship) Yucatan (Slaver)

Text		1847 agreement for ship building between James L. Todd and John Smith Maine Historical Society, Text Agreement between James L. Todd of Phippsburg with John Smith to build a ship. The names on the contract were changed on April 4, 1848. (Relevance: 437) Find Similar Resources	Contracts Manuscripts Moody, William O. Shipbuilding -- Maine Shipbuilding -- Maine -- Phippsburg Smith, Jacob Smith, John Todd, James L.

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: 433) Find Similar Resources	Natural resources Settlements Lumbering Shipping/Shipbuilding

Text		Penobscot Bay Fisheries and Industries Project (MF 047) Science, Text Thirteen interviews by David Taylor, conducted in 1973-74, covering fishing and related industries on Penobscot Bay and Penobscot River. Includes salmon, smelt, lobsters, captaining a lobster smack, eels, ship and boat building, and Friendship sloops. Series includes taped interviews, brief indexes, and transcripts. Descriptions available on Maine InfoNet. Tapes and photographs available at Maine Folklife Center, University of Maine, Orono. (Relevance: 418) Find Similar Resources	Fishing/Fisherman Fishers -- Penobscot Bay (Me.)

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