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Mabel Haskell's Wedding Gown, Jacqueline Field
“To Conserve The Best Of The Old”: The Impact Of Professionalization On Adoption In Maine, Mazie Hough
“To Conserve The Best Of The Old”: The Impact Of Professionalization On Adoption In Maine, Mazie Hough
Maine History
The Good Samaritan Home Agency has served young pregnant rural women from throughout the state of Maine since 1902. In its first four decades, the Home attracted more women than it could serve by incorporating rural values of self-reliance and hard work into its philosophy and organizational structure. Women came to the home to deliver their children and stayed for a required six-month residency. Taking advantage of inexpensive childcare and job placement provided by the Agency, many women gained the opportunity to remain in the city; keep their children, obtain jobs, and marry. By the 1940s, pressure from state and …
“You Speak Very Good English For A Swede”: Language, Culture, And Persistence In Maine’S Swedish Colony, Katherine Hoving
“You Speak Very Good English For A Swede”: Language, Culture, And Persistence In Maine’S Swedish Colony, Katherine Hoving
Maine History
In the summer of 1870, a small group of Swedish immigrants arrived in northern Maine with the intention of establishing a farming colony in a place they called New Sweden. Despite many difficulties, the community has persisted and maintained a strong sense of its Swedish heritage. A demographic study of those who lived in the Swedish colony during its first sixty years suggests that language retention played an important role in keeping both the community and its identity alive. Katherine Hoving completed her Masters of Arts in History at the University of Maine, Orono, in December 2001. She is currently …
Sufficient Unto Themselves: Life And Economy Among The Shakers In Nineteenth-Century Rural Maine, Mark B. Lapping
Sufficient Unto Themselves: Life And Economy Among The Shakers In Nineteenth-Century Rural Maine, Mark B. Lapping
Maine History
Community self-sufficiency was an ideal that both defined and informed the Shaker experience in America. During the nineteenth century the Shakers at Sabbathday Lake Colony in New Gloucester, Maine—today the last remaining Shaker Colony in the nation— developed a sophisticated economic system that combined agricultural innovation, a far-reaching market-based trade in seeds, herbs, and medicinals, mill-based and home manufacturers, and “fancy goods” to supply the developing tourist sector. They practiced both selective cloture and a profound degree of market savvy as they confronted the maturing market economy. Mark B. Lapping is Professor of Public Policy at the Muskie School of …
The Lynching Of James Cullen: Anomaly Or Archetype?, Stephen P. Budney
The Lynching Of James Cullen: Anomaly Or Archetype?, Stephen P. Budney
Maine History
Stephen P. Budney received his Masters Degree in History at the University of Maine and his Ph.D at the University of Mississippi. He currently teaches history at Pikeville College. He is the author of several articles and is currently writing a biography of abolitionist and reformer William Jay. He resides in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife and four dogs