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Wabanaki Experiences And Perspectives On “Our Shared Ocean”: Maine Indian Tribal-State Commission Special Report Sea Run, Anthony W. Sutton, Judson Esty-Kendall, Paul Thibeault
Wabanaki Experiences And Perspectives On “Our Shared Ocean”: Maine Indian Tribal-State Commission Special Report Sea Run, Anthony W. Sutton, Judson Esty-Kendall, Paul Thibeault
Maine Policy Review
The Maine Indian State Tribal Commission (MITSC) recently published a special report titled, Sea Run, documenting the impact of Colonial and Maine policies and activities on the quality and quantity of tribal fisheries spanning the time from first contact between Europeans and the Wabanaki Nations to today.
To Know The Land With Hands And Minds: Negotiating Agricultural Knowledge In Late-Nineteenth-Century New England And Westphalia, Justus Hillebrand
To Know The Land With Hands And Minds: Negotiating Agricultural Knowledge In Late-Nineteenth-Century New England And Westphalia, Justus Hillebrand
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Ever since the eighteenth century, experts have tried to tell farmers how to farm. The agricultural enlightenment in Europe marked the beginning of a long arc of new experts aiming to change agricultural knowledge and practice. This dissertation analyzes the pivotal period in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in Germany and the United States when scientists, improvers, and market agents began to develop comprehensive ways to communicate agricultural innovation to farmers. In a functional approach to analyzing the negotiation of agricultural knowledge through its communication in things, words, and practices, this dissertation argues that the process of change …
Hatch (Benjamin) Account Book, 1856-1863, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Hatch (Benjamin) Account Book, 1856-1863, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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Journal for the Schooner Paragon, a fishing vessel from Holmes Hole, Massachusetts whose master was Benjamin Hatch. The journal contains information about the weather and sailing conditions as well as a record of the number of fish taken each day.
Jensen (Robert E.) Records, 1967-1971, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Jensen (Robert E.) Records, 1967-1971, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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Robert E. Jensen was born in Iowa in 1938. A summa cum laude graduate of the University of Denver in 1961 with an M.B.A. in accounting, he received a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1966. He was a Certified Public Accountant and taught at the University of Denver, Stanford University, and Michigan State University. He came to the University of Maine at Orono in 1968 as the Nicolas M. Salgo Professor in the College of Business Administration.
In 1971-1972 Jensen was selected as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University where he …
Marine Sciences At The University Of Maine, 1960-2015, Catherine Schmitt, Shelby Hartin
Marine Sciences At The University Of Maine, 1960-2015, Catherine Schmitt, Shelby Hartin
Maine History
The development of marine science research, teaching, and service at the University of Maine formally began in 1965, when Ira Darling and Clare Shane Darling transferred their 127-acre farm and woodlot on the Damariscotta River in South Bristol to the University. Their express purpose was to establish a marine laboratory. The gift fulfilled the decades old desire by University of Maine scientists and administrators to do just that. UMaine quickly began hiring faculty, starting research projects, building structures, developing courses, and creating ties to state and federal agencies. The transition from farm to world-class facility and laboratory was gradual, with …
Old Roots And New Shoots: How Locals And Back-To-The-Landers Remade Maine's Local Food Economy, Eileen Hagerman
Old Roots And New Shoots: How Locals And Back-To-The-Landers Remade Maine's Local Food Economy, Eileen Hagerman
Maine History
Back-to-the-landers who relocated to Maine in large numbers during the 1970s often lacked traditional rural skills and encountered a variety of agricultural challenges related to the state’s harsh climate and poor soils. Many who remained on the land often did so, at least initially, because they received support from elderly neighbors who still practiced low-input, small-scale farming. These neighbors tended to freely share their knowledge and skills and, in return, often benefited from the young newcomers’ assistance with laborious on-farm tasks. The newcomers worked with their local allies to form organizations, share knowledge, and coordinate marketing efforts tailored to meet …
Radical Teaching: Scott And Helen Nearing’S Impact On Maine’S Natural Food Revival, Erik Gray
Radical Teaching: Scott And Helen Nearing’S Impact On Maine’S Natural Food Revival, Erik Gray
Maine History
Though today sustainable living and locally-sourced food receive increased attention nationwide, these ideas have been important in Maine for several decades. A key part of the state’s agricultural history is a tradition of self-sustaining homesteads. While subsistence farming and self-sufficiency was often a necessity on Maine’s northeastern frontier, homesteading has remained a lifestyle chosen by many of the state’s residents to this day. In this article, the author discusses the legacy of Scott and Helen Nearing, focusing particularly on the couple’s contributions to the “back to the land” movement in Maine and beyond. The author earned a B.A. in History …
Dirigo In The Arctic: Donald B. Macmillan, Harrison J. Hunt, And The Crocker Land Expedition, 1913-1917, Charles H. Lagerbom
Dirigo In The Arctic: Donald B. Macmillan, Harrison J. Hunt, And The Crocker Land Expedition, 1913-1917, Charles H. Lagerbom
Maine History
The polar careers of three Maine men intersected in the far reaches of the northern Arctic Ocean at a specific geographic spot on the globe: 83° North Latitude, 100° West Longitude. Called Crocker Land, it had been sighted by polar explorer and Maine resident Robert E. Peary on June 24, 1906. In 1913, Mainer Donald B. MacMillan organized the Crocker Land expedition to explore this land that Peary had sighted. Another Mainer, Harrison J. Hunt, signed on as doctor for MacMillan’s venture in 1913. Crocker Land tied them all together, but only one of the three actually stood where it …
An Enduring Technology: The Horse Logging Tradition In Maine, James E. Passanisi
An Enduring Technology: The Horse Logging Tradition In Maine, James E. Passanisi
Maine History
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Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant: A Technological Utopia In Retrospect, Howard P. Segal
Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant: A Technological Utopia In Retrospect, Howard P. Segal
Maine History
The Maine Yankee nuclear power plant, built in 1968 and closed in 1996, provides a revealing case study of the rise and fall of the nuclear power industry in the United States. At its inception, the plant generated a great outpouring of optimistic superlatives promising electricity “too cheap to meter” and a solution to Maine’s longstanding energy problems. Its promoters envisioned a technological utopia for Maine communities based on cheap and efficient energy, and based on these promising prospects, the town of Wiscasset welcomed the plant. This article traces the changes in public thinking that led to statewide referenda on …
Research Note: The Hazardous Search For Ancestors, Gordon W. Stuart
Research Note: The Hazardous Search For Ancestors, Gordon W. Stuart
Maine History
The following is an account of the search for an old family cemetery and the events that impacted the farm on which it was located over a 250 year period. Gordon Stuart, who recorded these events as a way of illustrating the perils and triumphs of genealogical research, is a retired hydrologist with national experience in water quality issues on forest and agriculture land. He volunteers with a lake association, a river watch group, and participates in woodlot education programs in Southern Maine.
The Maine Woods: A Legacy Of Controversy, Richard W. Judd
The Maine Woods: A Legacy Of Controversy, Richard W. Judd
Maine Policy Review
In the Margaret Chase Smith Essay, Richard Judd reflects on the history of Maine’s North Woods. He discusses the divergent interests with a stake on the North Woods over the centuries, but notes that there has been a long-standing interest in conservation and in the heritage represented by this vast region.
“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 …
Colonial Astronomers In Search Of The Longitude Of New England, Richard F. Rothschild
Colonial Astronomers In Search Of The Longitude Of New England, Richard F. Rothschild
Maine History
This article deals with aspects of progress made between 1755 and 1785 to identify the longitude of New England and the reasons for the failure of the Harvard-American Academy of Arts and Sciences expedition to Penobscot to see the totality of the solar eclipse of October 27 1780.
List Of Mines And Minerals Belonging To The Maine Mining Company Which Have Been Explored And Reported On By Charles T. Jackson, M.D. Whilst Employed By The Company And The Legislature Of Maine And Also The Reports Of Their Agents, Charles Thomas Jackson
Maine Bicentennial
In 1836, Charles T. Jackson of Boston, was contracted by the State Legislature to conduct the first Anglo-European evaluation of Maine’s mineral resources. The List of Mines and Minerals, issued in 1837, is one the reports Jackson produced as part of this survey.