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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 …
Maine, Indian Land Speculation, And The Essex County Witchcraft Outbreak Of 1692, Emerson W. Baker, James Kences
Maine, Indian Land Speculation, And The Essex County Witchcraft Outbreak Of 1692, Emerson W. Baker, James Kences
Maine History
Although the well-known Salem witchcraft trials of 1692 took place in Massachusetts, it was clearly related to events in Maine and elsewhere on the New England frontier. In recent years scholars have increasingly pointed to the many participants in the trials who had ties to Maine. These connections go beyond the accused witches and afflicted girls who were war refugees in Massachusetts, to include many residents of the Bay Colony caught up in a wave of speculation in frontier Indian lands during the 1680's. Most of the witchcraft judges and their families owned such land in Maine. Staunch Puritans such …
“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 …
William Burney And John Jenkins: A Tale Of Maine’S Two African-American Mayors, Elwood Watson
William Burney And John Jenkins: A Tale Of Maine’S Two African-American Mayors, Elwood Watson
Maine History
William Burney and John Jenkins were, respectively, mayors of Augusta and Lewiston. While this in itself is not unusual, the fact that they were African-American city leaders in a state where African-Americans make up less than one percent of the population is quite distinctive. Burney was elected mayor of Augusta in 1988, and Jenkins mayor of Lewiston in 1993. The article discusses their childhood and teenage years, their coming of age in college, and their early careers in the private sector. It suggests that these formative experiences, particularly their religious upbringing and their relation to white peers, was important in …
“They Lynched Jim Cullen”: Story And Myth On The Northern Maine Frontier, Dena Lynn Winslow York
“They Lynched Jim Cullen”: Story And Myth On The Northern Maine Frontier, Dena Lynn Winslow York
Maine History
James Cullen was born in 1846 in Peel, New Brunswick. In 1864 he applied for a grant of land and began a small farm near his father’s homestead. From there, events unfolded, as Cullen crossed the border, married Rosellah Twist, and became one of the most celebrated villains in Aroostook County history.
Richard Turcotte Collection, Stephanie Philbrick
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
Environment And Imagination In New England, Kent Ryden
Environment And Imagination In New England, Kent Ryden
Maine History
Kent Ryden, Associate Professor of American and New England Studies at the University of Southern Maine, considers the arguments put forward in the three essays by Judd, Beach, and Sebold published in this issue of Maine History. He points out that each essay explores the complicated relationship between Maine's physical landscape and the interpretations that are brought to bear on that landscape. Each case study— The Allagash, The Oil Tanker Port Controversy, and Maine's Salt Marshes— illuminate for Ryden the essential confusion caused by the distinction that we draw between “nature and “culture.” Conflicts over the natural …
“A Last Chance For Wilderness”: Defining The Allagash Wilderness Waterway, 1959-1966, Richard W. Judd
“A Last Chance For Wilderness”: Defining The Allagash Wilderness Waterway, 1959-1966, Richard W. Judd
Maine History
Seen in national perspective, the Allagash Wilderness Waterway is arguably Maine's most dramatic environmental accomplishment. The waterway resulted from an extended debate over several mutually exclusive proposals for the north Maine woods— dams to flood it; national parks to preserve it; and recreational schemes to transform it into a Coney Island of the North. In the mid-1960s, a coalition of landowners and conservationists cobbled together a preservation plan that conformed to the 1968 Federal Wild and Scenic River Act but pioneered several unique features that gave the wilderness idea a decidedly “eastern” twist. As a result, the waterway became a …
Scripting Maine’S Environmentalist Majority: The “Theater Of Oil,” 1968-1975, Christopher S. Beach
Scripting Maine’S Environmentalist Majority: The “Theater Of Oil,” 1968-1975, Christopher S. Beach
Maine History
Christopher Beach argues that Maine's contemporary environmental movement was created in the late 1960s when oil companies seeking sites for new refineries and tanker ports saw the Maine coast as ideally situated for expansion: close to southern New England and the mid-Atlantic coast, but relatively undeveloped and in need of economic re-energizing or so they thought. Hearings and conflict among fishers, state and local officials and politicians, residents (seasonal and permanent) and environmentalists created a long-term debate that in turn spawned a new understanding of Maine as a pastoral landscape for the modern world. Christopher Beach received his J.D. from …
“Amid The Great Sea Meadows”: Re-Constructing The Salt-Marsh Landscape Through Art And Literature, Kimberly R. Sebold
“Amid The Great Sea Meadows”: Re-Constructing The Salt-Marsh Landscape Through Art And Literature, Kimberly R. Sebold
Maine History
Salt marshes played an important role in northern New England agricultural from the colonial period to the twentieth century. While some coastal residents depended upon the natural grasses or salt hay to provide them with additional winter fodder, others transformed wetland into farmland through reclamation. The activities of salt marsh farmers created a whole new landscape which, ironically; late nineteenth-century artists and writers portrayed as the last vestiges of a “natural” landscape along the northern New England coast. Their paintings, photographs, poetry and stories established the salt marshes as an important part of coastal New England identity and aided the …
Special Collections 1012: The Bastard By Erskine Caldwell, William David Barry
Special Collections 1012: The Bastard By Erskine Caldwell, William David Barry
Maine History
No abstract provided.
A Bibliography Of Materials For Maine High School History Teachers, Roger B. Ray
A Bibliography Of Materials For Maine High School History Teachers, Roger B. Ray
Maine History
No abstract provided.
Television Comes To Bangor: A Conversation With Industry Pioneers, Judith Round
Television Comes To Bangor: A Conversation With Industry Pioneers, Judith Round
Maine History
Today, almost every household—98 percent of U.S. homes— has at least one television. There are hundreds of broadcast, cable, and satellite television channels sending out programming to viewers across the world. Yet only forty-seven years ago, television was in its infancy. What was it like to be part of this new form of information technology? George Gonyar and Margo Cobb, interviewed in March 1997, were part of a small group that pioneered television in greater Bangor. They not only brought television to the area, but they guided its development over the next forty years. Judith Round earned her Bachelor of …
Principle And Expediency: The Ku Klux Klan And Ralph Owen Brewster In 1924, John Syrett
Principle And Expediency: The Ku Klux Klan And Ralph Owen Brewster In 1924, John Syrett
Maine History
During the early 1920s the Ku Klux Klan gained considerable support throughout the United States and in Maine. In 1924 Ralph Owen Brewster, later a senator, secured the Republican nomination for governor with the Klan’s support. The dominant issue in the election was whether the state should continue to fund parochial schools. Brewster urged that this aid be ended, and the Klan enthusiastically endorsed his candidacy. Brewster narrowly won the primary and then easily won the September election. In this article John Syrett explores the relation between Brewster and the Klan. Mr. Syrett is a Professor of History and former …
“The Bricks” At Colby (Waterville) College: The Origins Of A Lost Campus, Bryant F. Tolles Jr.
“The Bricks” At Colby (Waterville) College: The Origins Of A Lost Campus, Bryant F. Tolles Jr.
Maine History
Popularly known as “The Bricks,” the former three-building row at Colby (Waterville) College was one of New England's most notable nineteenth-century higher educational building groups. Located at the center of Colby's first campus (abandoned in the 1950s), “The Bricks” consisted of a central main building, Recitation (Champlin) Hall (1836-1837), and two nearly identical, multi-purpose flanking structures, South (1821) and North (1822) colleges. The Colby row incorporated and integrated all components, formal as well as informal, of the college educational experience, thereby reflecting the predominant American higher educational philosophy of the pre-Civil War era. Bryant F. Tolles, Jr. is Professor of …