The use of the Maine Woods by lumbermen and sportsmen in the twentieth century was much more intense than it had been before 1900 (see III and IV). The railroad and steamship companies not only gave ease of access, they also actively promoted the reg...
Before the Civil War, a few travelers -- notably Henry David Thoreau and James Russell Lowell -- sought the "wilderness experience" of northern Maine. The trickle became a flood after 1870 as entrepreneurs began to promote the Moosehead Lake region f...
Before the American Revolution, Moosehead Lake was passed through by Europeans who followed Native American routes between the St. Lawrence and the Gulf of Maine. After the War of 1812-14, land speculators from Boston began to assess and divide up th...
Arriving at Moosehead Lake shortly after the retreat of the glaciers, approximately 11,000 years ago, Native Americans found Mt. Kineo. The mountain became a spiritual center for Native American life. Its distinctive volcanic rhyolite proved to be a ...
Support for this exhibition has been provided by generous gifts from Bernard and Barbro Osher, Sam L. Cohen, Peter and Paula Lunder, Peoples Heritage Bank, Scitex America Corporation, and Union Oil Company.This Exhibition was curated by Dr. Harold L....
Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all ye that love her! Join in her jubilation, all ye that mourn for her. ... For thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will extend prosperity to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like a flowing strea...
This city of Jerusalem I have set in the midst of nations, with other countries round about her. [Ezekiel 5:5]Since Jerusalem was located near the middle of the known world of antiquity, it naturally occupied a central position on early world maps. D...
Walk about Zion, and go round about it . . . [Psalms 48:13]In a sense, Abraham's journey to the Promised Land was the first religious pilgrimage. Among the places he visited was Salem, the future site of Jerusalem. With the bringing of the Holy Ark t...
Ten measures of beauty descended to the world; nine were taken by Jerusalem and one by the rest of the world. [Babylonian Talmud: Kidushin 49b]"Perched on its eternal hills," wrote Mark Twain in Innocents Abroad (1867), "white and domed and solid, ma...
For out of Zion shall go forth the Law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. [Isaiah 2:3]On a crude altar in Jerusalem, Abraham, Patriarch of three great monotheistic religions, undertook to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac, in accordance with God...
