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The Place To Be

Publications and Exhibits

Public life brings us together in common activity: cheering on the school sports team, enjoying Sunday dinner at a favorite restaurant, shopping at a local store. In these public spaces we conduct business, swap recipes, discuss issues of the day, relax with friends, and welcome newcomers to town. Public life knits together the diverse elements of a community and fosters a sense of civic responsibility. But longer job commutes, greater popularity of home entertainment, and online shopping mean more time spent privately and fewer opportunities to get together. To retain vitality, communities must continually nurture their traditional gathering places and …

Where Does Our Food Come From?

Publications and Exhibits

This twenty-two-panel exhibit traces Knox County's food system from farm to table. Drawing on interviews and fieldwork with dozens of local residents, including farmers, food processors, truckers, restaurant owners, and consumers, the exhibit consists of photographs and text that provide a unique perspective on the food we eat and the character of rural communities. The exhibit debuted at Kenyon College in May 2006 and has been featured at the Knox County Fair and the Centerburg (Ohio) Oldtime Farming Festival. This exhibit is on permanent display at Malabar Farm State Park in Lucas, Ohio. "Where Does Our Food Come From?" is …

The Mayos: African-American Artists Of The Heartland

Publications and Exhibits

This oral history project and exhibit pays tribute to two outstanding African-American folk artists with roots in Mount Vernon, Ohio: Walter O. Mayo (1878-1970) and his son, Walter L. “Bud” Mayo (1908-2000). Kenyon students Margaret Tazewell (’03) and Jessica Philips (’04) conducted interviews with family and community members, traced and documented artworks in the community, and mounted an exhibit and public conversation at Kenyon’s Olin Gallery in January 23-February 23, 2003.

Foodways

Publications and Exhibits

This series features essays, biographical sketches, photographs, and recipes exploring food and community life in Knox County. Topics include gardening, hunting and trapping, food markets, the economics of food, new farmers, feeding the hungry, eating out, ritual food, cooking, canning and preserving, food and healing, and food choices. The series is based on extensive field research.

Life Along The Kokosing

Publications and Exhibits

This tour guide of sites along Knox County's Kokosing River explores our relationship to nature and rural community identity. The guide includes thirteen five-minute audio programs featuring excerpts of interviews with residents about the sites and a forty-page booklet with photographs and additional historical materials. Topics include village and town history, Amish community, agriculture, floods, recreation, immigration, the economy, geological history, wildlife, green space preservation, and urban sprawl.

Track listing:

1. Intro: At Riverside Park

2. Waterford

3. Kokosing Resevoir

4. Kokosing Sand and Gravel Pit

5. Cassell Farm

6. Mount Vernon Viaduct

7. Andrew Craig Historical Marker

8. Brown Family Environmental Center

9. Kenyon Mill

10. Indianfield Run

11. Trestle …

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Genetic Study Of Some Pyrrhotite Deposits Of Maine And New Brunswick, Dept. Of Development Of Industry And Commerce

Maine Collection

Genetic Study of Some Pyrrhotite Deposits of Maine and New Brunswick

by Robert S. Houston

Maine Geological Survey - Bulletin 7

Department of Development of Industry and Commerce, Augusta, Maine (January, 1956).

Contents: Abstract / Introduction / Field and Laboratory Studies / Regional Geography / Regional Geology / Pyrrhotite Deposits / Description of Individual Deposits / Literature Cited

Rockland, 1922, Sanborn Map Company

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Rockland, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm. Sheet 1 includes an index of the area covered on the remaining sheets.

Rockland, 1912, Sanborn Map Company

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Rockland, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm. Sheet 1 includes an index of the area covered on the remaining sheets.

Camden And Rockport, 1912, Sanborn Map Company

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Camden and Rockport, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm. Sheet 1 includes an index of the area covered on the remaining sheets.

Thomaston, 1911, Sanborn Map Company

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Thomaston, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm. Sheet 1 includes an index of the area covered on the remaining sheets.

Warren, 1911, Sanborn Map Company

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Warren, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm. Sheet 1 includes an index of the area covered on the remaining sheets.

Warren, 1904, Sanborn Map Company

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Warren, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm.

Vinalhaven, 1904, Sanborn Map Company

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Vinalhaven, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm.

Rockland, 1904, Sanborn Map Company

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Rockland, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm. Sheet 1 includes an index of the area covered on the remaining sheets.

Camden And Rockport, 1904, Sanborn Map Company

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Camden and Rockport, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm. Sheet 1 includes an index of the area covered on the remaining sheets.

Thomaston, 1904, Sanborn Map Company

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Thomaston, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm.

Rockland, 1896, Sanborn-Perris Map Co., Limited

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Rockland, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm. Sheet 1 includes an index of the area covered on the remaining sheets.

Thomaston, 1896, Sanborn-Perris Map Co., Limited

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Thomaston, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm.

Camden And Rockport, 1894, Sanborn-Perris Map Company

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Camden and Rockport, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm. Sheet 1 includes an index of the area covered on the remaining sheets.

Rockland, 1892, Sanborn-Perris Map Co.

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Rockland, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm. Sheet 1 includes an index of the area covered on the remaining sheets.

Camden And Rockport, 1892, Sanborn-Perris Map Company

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Camden and Rockport, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm.

Thomaston, 1891, Sanborn-Perris Map Co., Limited

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Thomaston, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm.

Rockland, 1885, Sanborn Map & Publishing Co.

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Rockland, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm. Sheet 1 includes an index of the area covered on the remaining sheets.

Thomaston, 1884, Sanborn Map & Publishing Co., Limited

Sanborn Maps of Maine

A map of Thomaston, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color map is 64 x 54 cm.

Camden, 1884, Sanborn-Perris Map Company

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Camden, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm.