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Maine ... the Pine Tree State

Contributors: Mr. B's 5th Grade, Ms. Woltemate's Class, Mrs. Graves & Mr. Eichenlaub's 5th Grade

» Capital City: Augusta
» Location: 44.330N, 069.729W
» Area: 35,387 square miles; 320 miles long - 210 miles wide
» Population: 1,274,923
» Temperature Range: 20º F (winter) - 70ºF (summer)
» State Bird: Chickadee
» State Tree: Eastern White Pine
» Statehood: March 15, 1820; 23rd state
» Popular Tourist Destinations: Acadia National Park (2nd most visited park in the U.S.), northern end of the Appalachian Trail, L.L. Bean, Freeport
» Products: lobsters, shellfish, and fin fish; potatoes and wild blueberries

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Mr. B's 5th Grade

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Mrs. Graves & Mr. Eichenlaub's 5th Grade

Did you know that there was once a Maine law that said you could only feed your servants three lobsters a week? Did you know that lobsters were once used as fertilizer? They were abundant and cheap! Have you ever stopped in the woods on a snowy evening? Have you ever driven through pea-soup fog?

What do you think of when YOU think of Maine? We think of plump, juicy blueberries, dump trucks full of potatoes, the cry of a loon and the fragrance of salty surf, otters playing amid the rocks on our coast, sailing "DownEast" and skiing at Sugarloaf, Squaw, or Sunday River, ice fishing on a frozen pond, visiting Acadia National Park, the sigt of a graceful doe caught in our headlights, squawking flocks of seagulls hovering above a fishing boat, spending time shopping at L.L. Bean amongst hoards of tourists, curls of smoke drifting from a paper mill smokestack....

Maine... the Pine Tree State... a great state... OUR state!

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