Working The Bay

CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Appelbaum, Dana.  Giants in the Land.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 1993.  The story of the giant pines of New England that were cut down for masts in colonial times.  Woodcut illustrations.  Ages 7-12.

Jaspersohn, William . Timber!  Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1996.  Lumber and paper industries in Maine. Ages 7-12.

MacConomy, Alma Deane.  Odd Jobs in Lumbering.  New York:  G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1967.  An older book, but interesting—organized by the lingo of the lumbering industry:  stomach robber, donkey puncher, cat skinner, etc. Gives definitions of terms and descriptions of the logging process.  Ages 9-12.

Mitchell, Joyce Slayton. Knuckleboom Loaders Load Logs: A Trip to the Sawmill.  Woodstock and New York: The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc., 2003.  Picture book of contemporary logging and forest management.  Elementary level.

Rich, Louise Dickerson. First Book of Lumbering.  New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1967. History of lumbering in Maine and modern conservation efforts. Elementary level.

GENERAL TREATMENTS
Bunting, W.H. A Day’s Work: A Sampler of Historic Maine Photographs, 1860-1920. Gardiner, Maine: Tilbury House, 1997 and 2000.

Conkling, Philip and David D. Platt (eds.) Holding Ground: The Best of Island Journal, 1984 – 2004. Rockland, Maine: Island Institute, 2004.

Duncan, Roger F. Coastal Maine: A Maritime History. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1992.

Paine, Lincoln. Down East: A Maritime History of Maine. Gardiner, Maine: Tilbury House, 2000.

Rolde, Neil. Maine: A Narrative History. Gardiner, Maine: Harpswell Press, 1990. Maine industries, including paper, potatoes, lobsters, mills, tourism.

Rowe, William Hutchinson. The Maritime History of Maine: Three Centuries of Shipbuilding and Seafaring. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1948.
Wasson, George S. Sailing Days on the Penobscot: The River and Bay as They Were in the Old Days, with a Record of Vessels Built There, compiled by Lincoln Colcord. Salem, MA: Marine Research Society, 1932.

Whitman, William E.S. The Wealth and Industry of Maine for the Year 1873. Augusta, Maine: Sprague, Owen & Nash, 1873.

Woodard, Colin. The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier. New York: Viking, 2004.

Web pages:  Maine Memory Network, www.mainememory.net

FISHERIES AND LOBSTERING
See Fisheries module

GRANITE
Grindle, Roger L., Tombstones and Paving Blocks: The History of the Maine Granite Industry. Rockland, Maine: Courier-Gazette, Inc., 1977.

Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Industrial and Labor Statistics for the State of Maine, 1902. Augusta, Maine: Kennebec Journal Print, 1903.

Stone Slabs and Iron Men: The Deer Isle Granite Industry. Stonington, Maine: Deer Isle Granite Museum, 1997.

LIME
Grindle, Roger L., Quarry and Kiln: The Story of Maine’s Lime Industry. Rockland, Maine: The Courier-Gazette, Inc., 1971.

LUMBERING
Ames, Alfred. From Stump to Ship [videorecording]. Orono, Maine: University of Maine at Orono, 1985.

Ballew, Stephen, et al. “Suthin’ (it’s the opposite of nothin’): An Oral History of Grover Morrison’s Woods Operation at Little Musquash Lake, 1945-1947. Northeast Folklore XVIII. Orono, Maine: Northeast Folklore Society, 1978.
Ives, Edward D. (ed.) Argyle Boom. Northeast Folklore XVII. Orono, Maine: Northeast Folklore Society, 1976.

Manning, Samuel F. New England Masts and the King’s Broad Arrow. Kennebunk, Maine: Thomas Murphy, 1979.

Pike, Robert E. Tall Trees, Tough Men: An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of Logging and Log-Driving in New England.  New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1967. Easy to read book on the history of lumbering in New England, including Maine.

Smith, David C. A History of Lumbering in Maine 1861-1960. University of Maine Studies No. 3, Orono, Maine: University of Maine Press, 1972.

ICE
Cummings, Richard O.  The American Ice Harvests: a historical study in technology, 1800-1918.  Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1949.  This is an older book but offers an easy to read account of ice harvesting. Middle/High school.

Seaburg, Carl and Stanley Paterson. The Ice King: Frederic Tudor and his Circle. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society; and Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport, 2003.  Biography of Frederic Tudor, a major figure in the ice industry.  Middle School, High School, Adult.
 
Weightman, Gavin. The Frozen-Water Trade: A True Story..  New York: Hyperion, 2003.  Interesting account of Frederic Tudor, a major figure in the ice industry. Some photographs.  MS/HS/Adult