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Road diaries. Southern Maine [videorecording] / Maine Public Television ; produced by Chris Sweet

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August 17-20, 2001, Southern Maine. The Road Diaries bus visits the most populated area of Maine. From urban sprawl to island life in Casco Bay, the challenges of population density and traffic are investigated by the Road Diaries explorers. How is…

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Collection: Video Library

Road diaries. Northern Maine [videorecording] / Maine Public Television ; produced by Chris Sweet

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Aroostook County, Sept. 21-24, 2001. Six dedicated Road Diaries explorers trek across the state to find the "real" Maine. This area, more than any other, was unknown to them. Maine's northernmost county is the largest county east of the Mississippi.…

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Collection: Video Library

Road diaries. Eastern Maine [videorecording] / Maine Public Television ; produced by Chris Sweet

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August 17-20, 2001, Down East Maine. The Road Diaries bus travels in search of the two Maines. A visit to the sparsley settled north coast shows that residents of Washington and Hancock counties have a distinct perception that they are from the other…

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Collection: Video Library

Ride the Sandy River Railroad [videorecording]

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For more than 50 years, Franklin County, Maine, enjoyed the best two foot gauge railroad in the country. The Sandy River Line ran from 1879 until 1935. Fortunately, a group of railroad enthusiasts was frequenting the line near its end, filming and…

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Collection: Video Library

Reader's Digest World [videorecording] : America in the '40's

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It was the most momentous decade of the century: ten years of triumphs and tragedies, heartaches and heroics, hopes and humor. This series looks at the fads, the fun, the hits, the headlines, the hometown life ... and the decades' best-loved stars…

Collection: Video Library

Public hearing on expansion of the Bethel Regional Airport runway

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Public hearing on the proposed expansion of the Bethel Regional Airport runway. Several citizens voice opinions. Among the issues discussed are the American Skiing Company's interest in the plan.

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Penobscot [videorecording] : the people and their river / a film by Gunnar Hansen, David Westphal ; [produced by] Acadia Film and Penobscot Indian Nation

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Describes the history of the relationship between the Penobscot Indians and the river that shares their name, and the efforts to combat the effects of pollution on the river and the Indian's traditional way of life.

Collection: Video Library

Over New England [videorecording] / KCTS Television ; producer/writer/editor, Jeff Gentes

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An airborne journey over the six-state region's landscapes and landmarks. Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont are included.

Collection: Video Library

Our stories [videorecording] : At the center of things [East Bethel, Maine]

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Discusses the Hastings dairy farm in East Bethel.

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Collection: Video Library

Old Sturbridge Village [videorecording] : Growing up in New England

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Explore New England in the 1830's through the eyes of Sarah and her brother Jonathan. As their everyday family tasks and errands take them from their home on the farm into the Center Village, they glimpse the adult world which they will soon enter.

Collection: Video Library

Old Sturbridge Village [videorecording]

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Step back in time to rural New England in the 1830's in this historical VideoTours adventure. In Old Sturbridge Village, you'll become part of "Living History" as pieces from our past are once again assembled into reality.

Collection: Video Library

Northern railroads [videorecording] : Vermont and her neighbors / Vermont ETV

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Discusses the history of railroads in Vermont from the age of steam through the transition to diesel. Includes stories told by railroaders, townspeople and historians

Collection: Video Library

Moving the clothespin

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Short video of a crew of volunteers moving a large clothespin shaped sign for the former Lewis M. Mann & Son's mill in Woodstock, Maine, to the Woodstock Historical Society.

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Modern times in Maine and America [videorecording] : 1890-1930

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Collection: Video Library

Mary Silliman's war / [presented by] Heritage Films and Citadel Films ; produced by Steven Schecter & Barry Cowling ; directed by Stephen Surjik ; written by Steven Schecter & Louisa Burns-Bisogno

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After the kidnapping and imprisonment of her husband by the British for his part in convicting two local Tories during the Revolution, Mary Silliman manages to secure her husband's freedom while still handling domestic affairs and coping with the…

Collection: Video Library

Made in Maine [videorecording] : Barn again / Maine Public Television

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Collection: Video Library

Legends of American skiing [videorecording] : a film / by Richard Moulton

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Film footage of the first days of skiing in America as told by the people who lived it

Collection: Video Library

L.L. Bean [videorecording] : Maine biographies / with Jack Perkins

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The story of Leon Leonwood Bean, his humble beginnings and the creation of a retail empire

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Collection: Video Library

King spruce [videorecording]

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A circa 1940 look at pulpwood harvesting and river driving. Pulp cutters demonstrate, in great detail, their tools and techniques.

Collection: Video Library

Into the White Mountains [videorecording] : The romantic invention of scenic tourism

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Collection: Video Library

In the public interest [videorecording] : the Civilian Conservation Corps in Maine / produced by Skip Anderson ... [and others]

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A pictorial history of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Maine, 1933-1942.

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Collection: Video Library

Ice harvesting sampler [videorecording]

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Five short silent films from the 1920s-1940s showing a near-forgotten New England industry.

Contents: Everett Johnson Collection. Long Pond-South Portland, Maine. 1943 -- Robert Taylor Collection. East Andover, Mass. 1927 -- Good Will-Hinckley…

Collection: Video Library

Home [2000 series] [videorecording] : the story of Maine / Maine Public Television ; executive producer, Katherine E. Arno ; producers, Tami Kennedy, Bob Libbey, Chris Sweet, Ann Wright

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Contents: A Love for the land -- The Nation's playground -- Trails, rails, and roads -- Power lines

Collection: Video Library

Home [1999 series] [videorecording] : the story of Maine / Maine Public Television ; executive producer, Katherine E. Arno ; producers, Tami Kennedy, Bob Libbey, Chris Sweet, Ann Wright

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Contents: A place apart: the story behind the image of Maine -- A part of the Main: European settlement on the mainland -- They came by sea

Collection: Video Library

Falcon [videorecording]

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Promotional video for Falcon Lodge, a wilderness resort located on Spencer Lake in township 3, range 5, Somerset County, Maine.

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Collection: Video Library