Description: "Originally published in 1899 in The Century Magazine and in book form in 1904 by the American Unitarian Association under the title of: John Gilley, Maine farmer and fisherman."
Description: Kitchen/Farm. Circular wooden sieve with metal screen, iron handle, and side hooks for winnowing beans from the husks. Gaile Colby recalls her aunt "winnowing in the wind."
Description: Artifact, round wood and cardboard case, perhaps for cheese or cake, top and bottom wood, sides cardboard, handwritten "J & Petal" or "J & Pural" on top
Description: Letter and a bill (related to framing) to Mrs. Fay from Charles Savage. Includes remarks about the fire which destroyed Augustus Phillips workshop and about Charles's trip to California, etc. Related to ART 0025
Description: Members of the planning team and other interested MOFGA members visit educational farms in the Northeast, including the Coolidge Center for the Advancement of Agriculture (Topsfield, Mass.), Maine Audubon’s Gilsland Farm, The Rodale Organic Gardening and Farming Research Center, The Ark (on Prince Edward Island), the New Alchemy Institute and more. They write about these places for the Feb. 1981 issue of The Maine Organic Farmer & Gardener.
Description: Documentary film of the Hancock County 4-H Dairy Club developing dairy stock in conjunction with the University of Maine Extension Service & Hancock County Farm Bureau.
Description: Booklet, "Pierce's Memorandum and Account Book, Designed for Farmers, Mechanics, and All People", for taking daily notes, with quaint information
Description: In 1936, Nelson Herrick bought 140 acres of land in Tremont and 18 cows and following in his father's footsteps, began dairy farming. When the children got old enough they helped run the milk route and do other chores
Description: It is unknown exactly where Osmond was picking up hay, but it is probable that he was on Peter Theodore Benson Jr.'s land and two of Peter's children were helping load the hay. The Harpers and the Bensons were neighbors at Seawall. Osmond built his house at 475 Seawall Road, Map 19 - Lot 48, MHPC #405-1016, across the road and several lots toward Southwest Harbor from the Benson's land, in 1917.
Description: Left to Right: "Kit" - the horse Charles Samuel Spurling (1880-1911) Viola Florence Joy (1887-1911) Bernice Spurling (1904-1929) Clarence Freeman Joy (1893-1988) In the wagon (tentative identification): Walter F. Joy (1891-1974) Clyde E. Spurling (1910-1934)
Description: Left to Right: "Kit" - the horse Charles Samuel Spurling (1880-1911) Mary "Mamie" Frances Spurling (1877-1965) Bernice Spurling (1904-1929) - died of TB in Arizona Clarence Freeman Joy (1893-1988) In the wagon (tentative identification): Walter F. Joy (1891-1974)
Description: Left to Right: Clarence Freeman Joy (1893-1988) Charles Samuel Spurling (1880-1911) Bernice Spurling (1904-1929) - died of TB in Arizona In the wagon (tentative identification): Walter F. Joy (1891-1974) Clyde E. Spurling (1910-1934)