University of Maine Press

1991: by C. Stewart Doty- Reveals the great work of the Farm Security Adm.. The author located 100 members of the 20 families photographed. This is their story and what the Farm Security Adm. did for them from 1940-1943.

Blanchard Weather Report is a discrete set of photographs within Todd Watts’s extensive life’s work. “The Blanchard Weather Report began as a visual report sent to friends who asked. A visual conversation. A wordless documentary discourse carried on over the internet. In those first pictures, there were objects – trees, and rocks, and streams, and grass – but the weather …

A Celebration of Maine Children’s Books features 185 Maine children’s books, divided into logical age and genre categories. The guide includes bibliographic information; full book summaries; learning activities for each book; biographies of authors and illustrators; names and addresses of authors, illustrators, and publishers; and reproductions of many covers and illustrations. The book ends with an “at presstime” section that presents …

The Civil War letters of Abial Edwards are published here in full, with careful attention to reproducing Edwards’s exact wording, spelling, and punctuation. Historian James L. Crouthamel places the letters in historical context with introductory comments and explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading.

While designed to be a reference-work for biologists, conservationists, folklorists, and historians, this book will also be of use to campers, hunters, trappers, and others interested in the region’s natural history. Early Maine Wildlife features early writings about the Canada lynx, moose, mountain lion, white-tailed deer, wolverine, wolves, and woodland caribou. To put the historical information about these species into a contemporary …

Finding Katahdin: An Exploration of Maine’s Past presents an articulate, thoughtful understanding of Maine history in a way that engages students and introduces them to the discipline of historical research and scholarship. Finding Katahdin explores Maine in its various incarnations: as a land of prehistoric hunters and gatherers; a frontier where English, French, and Wabanaki cultures mix and clash; a …

Grasses and rushes are common components of ecosystems throughout the state, often found in both natural and human-altered landscapes. This guide incorporates high-resolution images of morphological structures. Photographs are of living plants, herbarium specimens collected within the state, and, less commonly, from plants outside of the state.  It also has excellent coverage for neighboring states and Canadian provinces.

Since the mid 1970s Grégoire Chabot’s provocative, witty, and profoundly compassionate plays have been produced by community theaters throughout the Northeast. Now for the first time these works, originally written in North American French, are available with fine English translations by the author.

“In these plays Greg Chabot has penetrated to submerged places in the collective psychic homeland of a cultural …

“Lawrence Doyle, the farmer-poet of Prince Edward Island, lived all his sixty years along the Fortune Road east of St. Peters. He died in 1907, but his memory is still very much alive, and so are some of the songs he made up about what he saw in the world about him. In the pages that follow I will tell …