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Digitalcommons@Umaine For Faculty, Kimberly J. Sawtelle Oct 2012

Digitalcommons@Umaine For Faculty, Kimberly J. Sawtelle

Kimberly J. Sawtelle

DigitalCommons@UMaine, the university's Institutional Repository (IR), offers a free alternative to faculty to disseminate research, scholarship, and creative activity as required by many departmental missions and federal granting agencies. The IR benefits faculty by increasing global exposure to research, scholarship, and creative output. This presentation features an overview of DigitalCommons@UMaine, a brief introduction to the program's essential tools, and concepts for uploading material.


Frock Coat And Flag: Union Soldier Markers In Central Maine, Kimberly Sawtelle May 2009

Frock Coat And Flag: Union Soldier Markers In Central Maine, Kimberly Sawtelle

Kimberly J. Sawtelle

The Frock Coat and Flag motif of gravestone is a short-lived memorial theme borne from a compressed period of American history. The horrors, tragedy, and impact of the U.S. Civil War on American civilians and a lack of a comprehensive plan by the U.S. Congress to provide means or methods to bury and mark the graves of soldiers who died in service contributed to the manifestation of a portrait-style grave marker used by families in a relatively compact geographic region of central Maine between 1861 and 1864.


Clues To Paleoindian Survival: Underwater Caches My Have Supplied Meat In Winter, Kimberly J. Sawtelle Jul 1991

Clues To Paleoindian Survival: Underwater Caches My Have Supplied Meat In Winter, Kimberly J. Sawtelle

Kimberly J. Sawtelle

Dr. Daniel C. Fisher of University of Michigan's Museum of Paleontology and Department of Geological Sciences has found intriguing new information at the Heisler and other sites concerning Paleoindian food-caching behavior. New lines of evidence suggest Paleoindian peoples stored meat from proboscideans by anchoring under water in ponds.


Mastodont Hair Gives Clues To Habitat, Kimberly J. Sawtelle Jul 1991

Mastodont Hair Gives Clues To Habitat, Kimberly J. Sawtelle

Kimberly J. Sawtelle

Two samples of preserved mastodont hair and soft tissue found at the Milwaukee Mastodont site could shed new light on the paleoecology of Mammut americanum and how this animal related to its natural habitat.


Sheriff Murch And His Lollipop Patch, Kimberly J. Sawtelle Jul 1989

Sheriff Murch And His Lollipop Patch, Kimberly J. Sawtelle

Kimberly J. Sawtelle

Sheriff Frank Murch tells the story about his discovery of the lollipop seed that leads to an annual July 4th harvest for happy neighborhood children.


A Real Ghost Story, Kimberly J. Sawtelle Oct 1987

A Real Ghost Story, Kimberly J. Sawtelle

Kimberly J. Sawtelle

Members of a rural Maine family, under the condition of anonymity, discuss Spiritualist beliefs, paranormal, and psychic abilities said to run through multiple generations.