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The Cultural Construction Of The Maine Sporting Camps, March O. Mccubrey
The Cultural Construction Of The Maine Sporting Camps, March O. Mccubrey
Maine History
Maine’s lakes and forests attracted a growing number of urban hunters and anglers after 1880. Attracted in part by the informality and remoteness of the Maine woods, these urban recreationists nevertheless imposed their own sense of order and propriety upon the culture of the sporting camp. Urban “sports “ went “back to nature, ” yet maintained their status - and their social distance - as ladies and gentlemen. ”
A Cage For John Sawyer The Poor Of Otisfield, Maine, Jean F. Hankins
A Cage For John Sawyer The Poor Of Otisfield, Maine, Jean F. Hankins
Maine History
Each year from 1790 to the end of the Civil War the town’s people of Otisfield wrestled with the dilemma of town relief. Examining this issue from two perspectives - the town taxpayers and the town poor - Jean Hankins sheds light on the politics, the finances, the hardships, the family life, and the burdens of responsibility in Maine's nineteenth-century small towns.