maine work ethic Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/tag/maine-work-ethic/ Maine Local Community Blog Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:13:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://meinmaine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-moose-Maine-32x32.png maine work ethic Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/tag/maine-work-ethic/ 32 32 Picking Potatoes On A Northern Maine Aroostook County Farm https://meinmaine.com/2025/09/23/picking-potatoes-in-a-northern-maine-aroostook-county-farm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=picking-potatoes-in-a-northern-maine-aroostook-county-farm Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:56:59 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18444 One spud, two spuds, picking potatoes on a Northern Maine Aroostook County farm. Was it hard for kids to head out into the early morning darkness to the Maine potato farm field? What work ethic lessons were learned for youth relied on to get the potatoes basket picked, poured into barrels, trucked from the Maine […]

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]]> Maine, Who’s From Vacationland, Raise Your Hands? https://meinmaine.com/2011/01/14/maine-whos-from-vacationland-raise-your-hands/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maine-whos-from-vacationland-raise-your-hands https://meinmaine.com/2011/01/14/maine-whos-from-vacationland-raise-your-hands/#respond Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:36:01 +0000 http://meinmaine.com/?p=2411 It is no secret that job discrimination happens in favor of folks from Maine. You hear stories about a parking lot full of people looking for a job after World War Two in say Hartford CT. People making aircraft parts like jet turbines, or in shipyards needing laborers that know how to work. Want to […]

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]]> https://meinmaine.com/2011/01/14/maine-whos-from-vacationland-raise-your-hands/feed/ 0 What Makes Maine Great, Special, Different? https://meinmaine.com/2009/03/21/what-makes-maine-great-special-different/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-makes-maine-great-special-different https://meinmaine.com/2009/03/21/what-makes-maine-great-special-different/#respond Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:51:20 +0000 http://meinmaine.com/?p=135 Land…there is lots of it in the world, in North America, in Maine. But what makes an area stand out from others beside just rolling land, woods, fields and the local terrain? The people. Folks raised on Maine farms, fish along the Maine coasts or that own their own small business struggle against life’s forces […]

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]]> https://meinmaine.com/2009/03/21/what-makes-maine-great-special-different/feed/ 0 Hopping Off The Bus, Remember Walking Up The Driveway As Kid Smelling Doughnuts Cooking. https://meinmaine.com/2009/03/14/hopping-off-the-bus-remember-walking-up-the-driveway-as-kid-smelling-doughnuts-cooking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hopping-off-the-bus-remember-walking-up-the-driveway-as-kid-smelling-doughnuts-cooking https://meinmaine.com/2009/03/14/hopping-off-the-bus-remember-walking-up-the-driveway-as-kid-smelling-doughnuts-cooking/#respond Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:58:37 +0000 http://meinmaine.com/?p=64      Hard day at school, and after hopping of the bus,  I enter the Maine farm house met by  the smell of mom cooking fresh chocolate donuts.    This is one of many fond childhood memories. No doubt your mom made some dishes like no other since. Potato salad, baked beans we grew, and home made bread was another […]

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