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Washburn Norlands Living History Center - Newsletter, January 20, 2009
Submitted by mjohnson on January 21, 2009 - 7:54pm
I recieved the latest Norlands newletter and wanted to share! Thanks for sending it along Kathleen Beauregard.
Washburn Norlands Living History Center - Newsletter, January 20, 2009
Contact: Kathleen Beauregard
kathy@tdstelme.netICE HARVEST
LIFE photo archive on Google
Submitted by mjohnson on November 18, 2008 - 6:33pm
Google and LIFE have teamed up to offer an easy way to search and view millions of photographs from LIFE's great archive.
Check it out at: http://images.google.com/hosted/life
I know I will spend many hours tonight exploring the photos. Any particular famous photo from LIFE you like? How about any from this search result? http://images.google.com/images?q=Maine+source:life
Have fun!
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The Shirley letters as audio book
Submitted by mjohnson on September 18, 2008 - 8:14pm
I've been exploring the world of free audio books this summer. You can read a few of my experiences here. Anyway, I discovered The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 at Librivox.
"BLOOD AND THUNDER" a story around Kit Carson
Submitted by mjohnson on October 29, 2007 - 6:56pm
I've mentioned before that I'm a regular listener of the Pritzker Military Library podcast. This month Hampton Sides talks about his book BLOOD AND THUNDER: An Epic of the American West.
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Jumping Frenchman of Maine
Submitted by mjohnson on June 19, 2007 - 5:17pm
Dr. Joan Bushwell's Chimpanzee Refuge website has an article I found interesting. "I'm a lumberjack and I'm not quite okay" was posted by Kevin Beck. You are just going to have to go read Mr. Beck's post.
Full Text American History Resources Available Free
Submitted by mjohnson on April 27, 2005 - 8:04pm
Full Text American History Resources Available Free - Resource of the Week
by Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor
We know you like content-rich sites because we like content-rich sites. And for the American history researcher, we have something very cool this week.
U.S. History
Source: Houghton Mifflin
Reader's Companion to American History
What's here? The full text of several American history books. Containing full-text, signed articles. Available titles are:
A quick history of Bowdoin, Maine
Submitted by mjohnson on March 30, 2005 - 3:24pm
Sebastian Cabot explored the Gulf of Maine in 1497. Soon after, European fishing fleets began coming to the coast of Maine for the amazing abundance of cod and other fish that was found. Stories of 400 pound cod are common amongst these old tales.
Giovanni da Verrazano also explored the area during 1524 and may have explored up the Kennebec River as far as the Merrymeeting Bay. Merrymeeting Bay is a large tidal bay on the Kennebec River just north of Bath, Maine. Most of the area around the bay consists of low rolling hills, good pasture land and tall stands of trees. Native American Indians used the bay and the good land around it. To the point that they introduced wild rice to the area from the mid-west.
Medal of Honor Recipients Associated with the State of Maine
"This page honors those men who received the Medal of Honor who are associated with the State of Maine. Associated is used because it not only lists those who were born in Maine, but in the case of some Civil War recipients that were born in another state, but served with Maine Volunteer regiments. There are many cases in which Maine-born recipients performed their heroic deeds with units from other states. The citations will have links to hometowns, burial places, and other related information - if it exists on the Web and we have located it." As quoted from this website.
Maine's First Ship
"Almost 400 years ago ...a Maine vessel launched America's love affair with shipbuilding.
In 1607 ...at the mouth of Maine's Kennebec River, a group of hardy English settlers established a fragile foothold on this coast, 13 years before the Pilgrams. Here they created the continent's first ocean going ship, a 30-ton pinnace, calling it The Virginia.
In 1608 and 1609 ...The Virginia ranged Maine's coast, and voyaged across the Atlantic at least twice." This quote is from their website.
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