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832,000 Acres: Maine's 1825 Fire And Its Piscataquis Logging Aftermath, Chapter 1 And Introductory Material, William W. Geller

Maine History Documents

Author's abstract:

The 1825 fire consumed 832,000 acres, a great deal of it in the Piscataquis River valley, and was nearly four times the size of Maine’s 1947 fires that consumed 220,000 acres. This is the only book that has more than a couple paragraphs about the fire; it includes all the limited amount of recorded information about the fire that started in the township of Guilford and burned in every direction on a compass. Furthermore, it is the only publication of any form that uses existing information to create a possible map of its boundary lines.

The central focus …

Accommodations At The Edge Of Wilderness: The Story Of Hunt Farm And Lunksoos On The Penobscot River's East Branch, John W. Neff

Maine History Documents

Contents: Prelude, Setting the Stage -- The Pioneers Arrive 1830-1845 -- Hunt Farm, The Way to Katahdin 1845–1880 -- The Ascendancy of the Dacey Clearing 1880–1900 -- Lunksoos in Times of Change 1900 – 1930 -- The Pasts Recedes, A Bright Future Unfolds 1930 to the Present

Maine Sporting Camp History On The Piscataquis River Tributaries, Part 1, William W. Geller

Maine History Documents

Maine Sporting Camp History on the Piscataquis River Tributaries, Part 1: Introductory Material -- Settlement and Travel in the Piscataquis River Watershed -- Northeast to the Sporting Camps at Schoodic, Upper Ebeemee, Seboeis, Cedar, and Endless Lakes

Author's abstract:

These sporting camps began to slowly develop in the mid-1870s and reached their heydays before the 1930s. To reach these camps, sports traveled on one of four land routes within the Piscataquis watershed. Each of these routes and the associated camps are the basis for chapters two through five. The first chapter traces the development of the settling along these routes …

Mf029 "Our Life, Our Work:" Lewiston Western Older Citizens Council / Marcella Sorg And Stefan Duplessis, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids

The project "Notre Vie, Notre Travail-Our Life, Our Work" was initiated by the Lewiston Western Older Citizens Council by Diane Brown who worked there. Funded by the Maine Humanities Council, this project involved a series of bilingual interviews utilizing family albums to stimulate discussion about Franco-American culture, particularly as it pertained to work. That is, it concerned the following: how work reflected cultural values; work ethic; work/occupation patterns; how work was integrated with family life (or interfered with it); the history of work patterns in the Lewiston area, and about Franco-American culture and family life in general.