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BHS Program: "Prehistory of the Androscoggin River"

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Bethel Historical Society's annual meeting and program, "Prehistory of the Androscoggin River," presented by Dr. Nathan Hamilton of the Univeristy of Southern Maine on September 3, 1992.

Tags: Androscoggin River (N.H. and Me.) | Bethel Historical Society (Bethel, Me.)

Collection: Bethel Historical Society Video Collection

White Mountain scrap book

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Collection: Books and Pamphlets

The Bethel Courier, Vol. 2, No. 2

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Features: 115 Years Ago: Masons Observe Golden Wedding Aniversary -- 1 The Last of the Pequakets: Mollocket by Nathaniel T. True-- 2 Book Review:Waterford, Maine, 1875-1976. [Reviewed by Randall H. Bennett.] -- 4 Society news In Memoriam…

Tags: Bethel Historical Society (Bethel, Me.) | Broad Street Historic District (Bethel, Me.) | Waterford (Me.)

Collection: Full Issues of The Courier

The Bethel Courier, Vol. 6, No. 1

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Features: Park Street by Rosalind Rowe Chapman -- 1 Bethel's Elusive Androscoggin Steamboat by Randall H. Bennett -- 3 A review of Gordon M. Day's The Identity of the Saint Francis Indians [reviewed by Catherine S-C. Newell] -- 6 Society…

Tags: Androscoggin River (N.H. and Me.) | Park Street (Bethel, Me.)

Collection: Full Issues of The Courier

The Bethel Courier, Vol. 7, No. 2

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Features: Memories of an Earlier Era: Part I by Marjorie Farwell Cummings -- 1 One Hundred Fifty Years of Hotel Keeping on Bethel Hill -- 4 A review of Indian New England before the Mayflower by Howard S. Russell [reviewed by Catherine S-C.…

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The Bethel Courier, Vol. 9, No. 3

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Features: Chapman Street through the Years by Donald S. and Arlene G. Brown -- 1 A review of Above the Gravel Bar: The Indian Canoe Routes of Maine by David S. Cook [reviewed by Alvin Barth] -- 8 Society news: Editor's Corner --…

Tags: Bethel (Me.) | Chapman Street (Bethel, Me.)

Collection: Full Issues of The Courier

The Bethel Courier, Vol. 9, No. 4

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Features: Bethel During the Second World War by Stanley Russell Howe [Part 1] -- 1 A review of The Embattled Northeast: The Elusive Ideal of Aliance in Abenaki-Euroamerican Relations by Kenneth M. Morrison [reviewed by Margaret Joy Tibbetts] --…

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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

The Land of Norumbega [videorecording] : Maine in the age of exploration and settlement

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Collection: Video Library

Wabanaki [videorecording] : a new dawn / Acadia Film Video ; presented by the Maine Indian Tribal-State Commission

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This video "shows the quest for cultural survival by today's Wabanaki ... The voices in the video offer hope that the Wabanaki will use their cultural and spiritual inheritance to survive and thrive in the third millennium."

Collection: Video Library

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

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

New Hampshire Indians : a guide for instruction

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Collection: Books and Pamphlets

Legends and historical events of Indians in New Hampshire / submitted by New Hampshire chapters, Daughters of the American Revolution ; compiled by Mrs. James B. Austin, N.H. Chairman, D.A.R. American Indians Committee

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Collection: Books and Pamphlets

Well-known Indians of the Bethel Area

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Well-Known Indians of the Bethel Area by Catherine Newell Note on Indian Names: The names which have come down to us identifying certain Indians are usually corruptions of the French Christian names received at baptism in Canada. There are, for…

Collection: Featured Articles from The Courier

Metallak

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Metallak by Peter Smith Bean State of New Hampshire marker near Metallak's grave site Editor’s Note: This brief memoir about the Indian Metallak is found in the Oxford County Advertiser of 17 January 1890. The author is Peter Smith Bean, who…

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The Last of the Pequakets: Mollockett

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The Last of the Pequakets: Mollockett Written for the Maine Historical Society by N. T. True, M.D.,and published in theOxford Democrat, Jan. 2, 1863 The Pequakets were a powerful tribe on the Saco River. The Lovewell Fight at Fryeburg, in 1725,…

Collection: Featured Articles from The Courier