Mattawamkeag (Me.)

Scope and Contents Teacher's school registers for Mattawamkeag, Maine. Includes school district, teacher(s), school information as well as information on wages, room and board costs, and number of visits by school committee members or citizens. Also records a list of students, their ages, and their attendance records. Collection also includes school agent's census returns that recorded the students in the district between ages four and twenty-one and school agent's fiscal returns that detail expenditures in...

Abstract NA3678 Willard Tilton, interviewed by Bill Mackowski, January 26, 2010, Passadumkeag, Maine. Tilton, age 78 and born in Mattawamkeag, Maine in 1933, talks about teaching children at a wilderness camp to make baskets; making over 1300 baskets; uncle had machine pounder; taught himself; did some trapping; where to find best trees; Molonkus Stream; checked rings and made a chip to make sure he got the right tree; he used a white maple for a basket once; uses a pole axe; scores logs out in the...