Publication Date

6-1-1976

Volume

3

Issue

1 & 2

Keywords

Local history, Island Communities, Lighthouses, Fishing, Fishermen, Ships, Antiques and Collectibles, Storytelling, Folklore, Boat Building, Animal Husbandry, Clam Harvesting, Agriculture, Sea Moss, Yankee Humor, Logging, Immigrants, Swedish Community, Cultural Traditions, Maple Syrup

Disciplines

Human Ecology | Social and Cultural Anthropology | Sociology of Culture | Work, Economy and Organizations

Description

Maine Bicentennial

Contents — From the Sea

  • 6 Twelve Miles Off the Mainland Natives of the rocky island of North Haven, Maine tell how they get what they need to survive.
  • 14 Goat Island Lighthouse It takes a special kind of person to live on an island alone and tend a lighthouse. The Goat Island lighthouse keeper and his wife describe their life.
  • 28 Gill Netting Herbert Hutchins takes Salt out gill netting for the day and we learn how it’s done.
  • 34 Ships in Bottles Richard Nickerson of Arundel gives a step by step demonstration of how to construct the intricate, tiny ships he puts into bottles.
  • 42 Designing with Shells The Robert Nichols of Kennebunk show us how to create figures using shells.
  • 46 How to Make Sea Moss Pudding For years people along the coast have been making a delicious pudding using sea moss. Marion Webber of Kennebunk explains how it’s done.
  • 49 Sam and Hazel at the Pier Sam and Hazel Wildes have been familiar figures down at Cape Porpoise Pier for about 40 years. We introduce them to you.
  • 60 Boat Building “The keenest eye in the trade” — that’s what people say about master boat builder Herbert Baum, who takes us through each step of the way in designing and building a boat.
  • 92 Trapping Mittens Larence Seavey of York once caught some mittens in his lobster trap and he tells how it happened.
  • 93 Helen Perley Always Gets Her Clam There’s more than one way to catch the flavor of a clam, according to Helen Perley of Pine Point.

Contents — From the Land

  • 96 Yankee Wit Monty Washburn of Kittery Point shares some choice bits of Yankee humor.
  • 97 Half a Century of Logging Profile of lumber baron Grover Morrison of Lincoln.
  • 98 A Good Head of Water Grover Morrison tells about his lumbering operations “in the jungles of Maine.”
  • 108 Logging Town Patton, Maine points to its colorful past as “the lumbering center of the world” with a lumberman’s museum.
  • 114 Ida’s Story This is the first chapter of a book written by Ida Allen of Moxie Falls in which she tells about her childhood in the woods of Maine.
  • 117 Old Sooty’s Mulligan Old Sooty was the worst cook in the woods. Even the camp cat shunned his mulligan, according to the men.
  • 118 Horse Pulling Dick Wallingford of West Forks has won more trophies for horse pulling than anyone we know. He tells how it’s done.
  • 126 Maine’s New Sweden A cluster of small communities in central Maine is home for many Swedish emigrants who continue to preserve the traditions of their forefathers.
  • 130 Making Maple Syrup Tapping trees and making maple syrup is something New England people pride themselves on doing each year. Here is how it’s done.
  • 141 Yankee Contraptions Monty Washburn is one of many Yankees who have thriftily put together “contraptions” out of odd pieces that most people would call junk.
  • 144 Cluny Collects “Heritage” in Potato Land Cluny McPerson collects the “heritage” of potato growing people in Presque Isle.

Publisher

SALT, Inc.

City

Kennebunkport, Maine

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