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  • Subject starts with "Maine -- Social life and customs"

Cobblestones to hot top : a life in Maine / Charles H. Heino

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White pine and blue water : a state of Maine reader / edited by Henry Beston

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Ridge runner : the story of a Maine woodsman / Gerald Averill ; illustrated by Peter Stanziale

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Maine and her people : Stories and pictures of life through the history of the area now known as Maine / edited and produced by the Kennebec Journal

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CONTENTS: v.1. Maine folk.-v.2. Maine summers.-v.3 Maine ways.-v.4. Maine ages.-v.5. Maine leaders.-v.6. Maine arts

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The Salt book : lobstering, sea moss pudding, stone walls, rum running, maple syrup, snowshoes, and other Yankee doings / edited with an introd. by Pamela Wood

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People involved in such activities as lobstering, sea moss harvesting, and manning lighthouses discuss their lives in Maine and how they have changed over the years.

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The Maine folklife index : resources for study / compiled by C. Richard K. Lunt

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Once upon a farm : stories about the Crossland Farm / by Lloyd Crossland, Joyce Morgan, Fern Stearns, Gail Parent

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The family album; photographs of the 1890s & 1900s / by Gilbert Wight Tilton & Fred W. Record, assembled by Mark Silber

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Maine lingo : boiled owls, billdads & wazzats / John Gould, written in collaboration with Lillian Ross and the editors of Down East magazine

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BHS Hall Memorial Lecture: "Performing the Paper: Village Learning and Laughter in Postbellum Western Maine"

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Bethel Historical Society Hall Memorial Lecture, "Performing the Paper: Village Learning and Laughter in Postbellum Western Maine," delivered by Jo Radner on September 7, 1998.

A Maine man in the making / Franklin F. Gould

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BHS Hall Memorial Lecture: "Performing the Paper: Village Learning and Laughter in Postbellum Western Maine"

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Bethel Historical Society Hall Memorial Lecture, "Performing the Paper: Village Learning and Laughter in Postbellum Western Maine" delivered by Jo Radner on September 7, 1998.

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The peninsula / Louise Dickinson Rich ; drawings by Grattan Condon

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Agreeable situations : society, commerce, and art in southern Maine, 1780-1830 / edited by Laura Fecych Sprague ; essays by Joyce Butler ... [et al.]

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Harriet Beecher Stowe Finds "Intellectual Activity" in Western Maine

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Harriet Beecher Stowe Finds "Intellectual Activity" in Western Maine Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), circa 1865Photo courtesy of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission Editor’s Note: The letter quoted below was apparently written by…

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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…

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