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Friar's Bay Beach / Plage De La Baie Friar’S, Downeast Fisheries Trail, Roosevelt-Campobello International Park Jan 2014

Friar's Bay Beach / Plage De La Baie Friar’S, Downeast Fisheries Trail, Roosevelt-Campobello International Park

Maine Sea Grant Publications

Photo collage of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's time at Campobello Island.


Research And Learning Opportunities, Downeast Fisheries, Roosevelt-Campobello International Park Jan 2014

Research And Learning Opportunities, Downeast Fisheries, Roosevelt-Campobello International Park

Maine Sea Grant Publications

Opportunities abound for residents and visitors to get involved in researching and learning about the marine environment of Campobello Island and the Passamaquoddy Bay region.


Passamaquoddy People / Les Passamaquoddys / Peskotomuhkatiyik, Downeast Fisheries Trail, Roosevelt-Campobello International Park Jan 2014

Passamaquoddy People / Les Passamaquoddys / Peskotomuhkatiyik, Downeast Fisheries Trail, Roosevelt-Campobello International Park

Maine Sea Grant Publications

Passamaquoddy people trace their ancestry to time immemorial. The oldest archaeological site dates back to more than 13,000 years ago, when people moved into the region as the glaciers melted at the end of the last Ice Age.


Visionary Science Of The “Harvard Barbarians”, Catherine Schmitt Jan 2014

Visionary Science Of The “Harvard Barbarians”, Catherine Schmitt

Maine Sea Grant Publications

For over two months during the summer of 1880, eight young members of the Champlain Society made daily excursions, on foot and by boat, around Mount Desert Island. They collected plants and birds, and dredged small animals from the mud of Somes Sound. They stared at the rocks along shore and took photographs. Under the leadership of “Captain” Charles Eliot, son of Harvard President Charles William Eliot, the students were on the Island for the summer to “do some work in some branch of natural history or science.”