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The University of Maine

2004

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Maine Folklife, Vol. 10, Iss. 2, Maine Folklife Center Dec 2004

Maine Folklife, Vol. 10, Iss. 2, Maine Folklife Center

Maine Folklife Center Newsletter

Four thousand years ago, Archaic period peoples hunted swordfish in the Gulf of Maine. In addition to fauna remains, archaeologists have recovered stone representations of the distinctive sword-shaped bill, suggesting that these animals had a cultural significance that went beyond their dietary value. What archaeologists don't know is precisely where and how the fish were taken. In our own time, swordfish rarely come inshore. Commercial operators, both harpooners and long-liners, fish the eastern side of Brown's and George's Banks and points farther along the continental shelf. Even if hunters of the Archaic period could travel that distance, it would have …

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Maine Folklife, Vol. 10, Iss. 1, Maine Folklife Center Jun 2004

Maine Folklife, Vol. 10, Iss. 1, Maine Folklife Center

Maine Folklife Center Newsletter

The Northeast Archives is proud to announce that we have completed reprocessing and preservation work on two major collections, the Aroostook County Collection and the Maine State Federated Labor Council Collection. Our graduate assistants made preservation master and CD copies of each tape and expanded the descriptions of the tape contents to better assist researchers in finding the information they need. This work has been supported by grants from the Maine Historical Records Advisory Board.

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Building Peapods, Eric Dow Mar 2004

Building Peapods, Eric Dow

Maine Song and Story Sampler

Eric Dow talks about how he came to build the type of boat known as a “peapod.”

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Salt, 2004-2005, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies Jan 2004

Salt, 2004-2005, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

SALT telling Maine stories. Published by the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Number 59 / 60. 2004-2005.

Contents

  • 3 Reverence by Jennifer Andrews
  • 4 Ride This Train by Brendan Hughes, photos by Tim Greenway. Experience the rickets and tendons along the backbone of the old Boston and Maine Railroad.
  • 16 Off the Maine Road: To be Raymond Strout photo essay by Holly Wilmeth. With a hoe and bucket in hand, blood wormers work in time with the ocean’s heave and swell.
  • 24 Mussel Men by Susan Gaidos, photos by Kate Fox. Mussels: A crop changing the way fishermen once fished. …

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