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Penobscot Men, Michael Prokosch
Penobscot Men, Michael Prokosch
Maine History
The Fowlers of Millinocket lie near the heart of Maine’s north woods story. Henry David Thoreau and Fannie Hardy Eckstorm saw the family’s wilderness existence as antithetical to the commercialization and industrialization of their times, but the Fowlers themselves adapted easily when water power, coal, and oil upended the woods economy around them. Their family history traces the energy revolutions that shaped the northern forest and our country. Mike Prokosch is an organizer, popular economics educator, and hiker who lives in Boston.
E. S. Coe And The Allagash Wildlands, Dean B. Bennett
E. S. Coe And The Allagash Wildlands, Dean B. Bennett
Maine History
For more than half a century; land agent and timber-land owner Eben Smith Coe oversaw the operations of Chamberlain Farm, a large logging depot built in 1846 on the shore of Chamberlain Lake in Maine's famed Allagash region. From its founding to the present, the land on which he built the farm has undergone a succession of changes that provides insight into the meaning of wildness in American culture. Now protected as part of the Allagash wilderness waterway, Chamberlain Farm has come a full circle, and is now a fair semblance of the wilderness early native and Euro American visitors …
“The Only Man”: Skill And Bravado On The River-Drive, Edward D. Ives
“The Only Man”: Skill And Bravado On The River-Drive, Edward D. Ives
Maine History
Handling logs on Maine's swift-flowing rivers demanded great skill and dexterity and it was a source of pride for those who could do it well. Not surprisingly, stories about river driving have become an important part of Maine's heritage. Not the least of these stories involve the “only man” to accomplish some particularly dangerous or difficult feat of prowess and bravery. These tales were bound up with the coming-of-age process along the banks of the Penobscot and Kennebec rivers, and the accomplishments they relate signaled a person’s acceptance into the select ranks of legendary loggers— if they didn't go too …
Living In Two Worlds: Rural Maine In 1930, Richard H. Condon
Living In Two Worlds: Rural Maine In 1930, Richard H. Condon
Maine History
This article discusses the situation in the State of Maine in the early 1930. Highlighted are the quickening pace and modernization that came into the agrarian society and the challenge to residents of fast transportation and forced specialized farm production.