Living in Two Worlds: Rural Maine in 1930

Authors

  • Richard Condon University of Maine Farmington Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/NaN

Keywords:

self-sufficient farming, village farms, specialized farms, demography, out of state migration, Protestants, Henry Dunnack, logging, potatoes, J.W. Penney farm, prohibition, Great Conjunction

Abstract

This article discusses the situation in the State of Maine in the early 1930. Highlighted are the quickening pace and modernization that came into the agrarian society and the challenge to residents of fast transportation and forced specialized farm production.

Published

1985-09-01