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  • Subject starts with "Agriculture"

Farming and Bethel

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Farming and Bethel Text adapted from The Family Farm, a 1975 Bethel Historical Society exhibit guidecompiled and written by Stanley R. Howe Bethel's Agricultural Heritage Earliest Days The potential for making maple sugar from the numerous…

Collection: Miscellaneous Texts

BHS Program: "Oral History Night: Bethel Farming"

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Bethel Historical Society program, "Oral History Night: Bethel Farming" featuring a panel discussion on March 7, 1996.

The Bethel Antiquarian Suppers of the 1850s

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The Bethel Antiquarian Suppers of the 1850s Dr. Nathaniel Tuckerman True (1812-1887) Founder of Maine's first Farmer's Club (1853) at Bethel Originator of the Bethel Antiquarian Suppers (1855-1857) American life in the mid-nineteenth century…

To Improve the Farmer's Lot: The Grange in Maine

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To Improve the Farmer's Lot: The Grange in Maine by Stanley R. Howe For over half a century, beginning in the 1870s, the Grange in Maine numbered some 50,000 members in more than 400 locations throughout the State. Active on behalf of Maine's…

Farming in Maine, 1860-1940

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Collection: Books and Pamphlets

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

The How and why of spuds [videorecording]

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This silent film details the techniques and equipment of potato farming in 1920, taking the viewer from seed preparation to harvest to enjoyment of the final product. Videocassette release of the 1920 film made by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.

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.

Collection: Video Library