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A good place to call home [videorecording] : Maine towns creating their future

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Provides an insightful look at a number of Maine towns whose natural resources and quality of life were threatened by unplanned development. It portrays people who have worked to shape the future of their communities through sound planning and growth…

Collection: Video Library

A midwife's tale [videorecording] / Blueberry Hill Productions ; directed by Richard P. Rogers ; written and produced by Laurie Kahn-Leavitt

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The life of a frontier midwife, Martha Ballard, in Hallowell, Maine is reconstructed from her diary by historian Laurel Ulrich.

Collection: Video Library

A Visit with Norman Gray [videorecording]

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Norman Gray discusses his memories of logging in Maine in the 1930s. Includes many photographs taken by Gray.

Collection: Video Library

All but forgotten [videorecording] : Holman Francis Day, filmmaker

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Collection: Video Library

Anchor of the soul [videorecording] : a documentary about black history in Maine / produced by Shoshana Hoose & Karine Odlin

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Provides an in-depth look at Black history and race relations in northern New England: the inspiring story of African Americans struggling to create and sustain a church in Portland, Maine. The Abyssinian Church, founded in the early 1800's, became…

Collection: Video Library

Back country blues [videorecording]

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"Five rural-Maine families describe their struggles against poverty in this report, which focuses on life on the slopes of Egypt Mountain in Oxford County. Interspersed with the families' stories are comments from author Carolyn Chute, who found…

Collection: Video Library

Barns [videorecording] : legacy of wood & stone

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Provides a tour of historic barns of Vermont including weathervanes, cupolas, haymows, and silos. Includes information on how barns are restored and visits a barn raising.

Collection: Video Library

Bates College Museum of Art [videorecording] / Maine Public Broadcasting Network presents ; producer, Mark Ireland

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Features the Bates College Museum of Art, located in Lewiston, Maine, which serves as a major learning resource for the surrounding Lewiston-Auburn community. The museum holds a distinguished body of work by Lewiston native Marsden Hartley, among…

Collection: Video Library

Bethel, Maine, and all over [videorecording] : The home movies of Ralph Hall and others

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Description from DVD case: This DVD contains home movies shot with a 16 mm camera by longtime Bethel resident Ralph Hall. It also contains footage of some of Bethel's earliest "Living Nativity" events taken by unidentified persons. The films on this…

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Collection: Video Library

Chronicle [videorecording] [Bethel, Maine, 1989]

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Bethel, Maine featured on Boston television station WCVB-TV's "Chronicle" program in 1989.

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Collection: Video Library

Chronicle [videorecording] [Bethel, Maine, 1995]

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Bethel, Maine featured on Boston television station WCVB-TV's "Chronicle" program in March 1995.

Collection: Video Library

Chronicle [videorecording] [Maine Grange, 1992]

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Boston television station WCVB-TV's "Chronicle" program from May 1, 1992, focusing on the Maine State Grange. Includes commentary from Bethel Historical Society director and Maine State Grange historian Stanley Russel Howe.

Collection: Video Library

Dead River rough cut [videorecording] / Richard Searles and Stuart Silverstein

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Profiles two woodsmen, Bob Wagg and Walter Lane, who have chosen isolation and self-dependence as their lifestyle in a tarpaper shack on the Dead River in northern Maine. Shows them hunting, trapping, and logging trees with a team of oxen, and…

Collection: Video Library

Earliest Maine films [videorecording]

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"EARLIEST MAINE FILMS / 1. LOGGING IN MAINE, 1906 / Length - 12 min. / 2. A TROUT FISHING TRIP TO THE RANGELEY LAKES, 1906 Length - 9 min. / 3. DRAWING A LOBSTER POT, 1902 / Length - 30 sec. / Silent, Black & White"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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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