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Washburn Norlands Living History Center - Newsletter, January 20, 2009
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.

