Fourth graders in Mrs. Davenport's class are doing research on famous Maine people.
Here are some web sites that have information about many of the people we are studying:

Maine Secretary of State's Kid's Page
http://www.state.me.us/sos/kids/allabout/people/people.htm

Maine Sites from ImagineMaine
http://imaginemaine.com/directories/mesites.html
Scroll down to Famous Mainers.

There is a book in the Lura Libby Library, Maine's Claim to Fame: A Gallery of Personalities, which has information about some of our people.  If your person has an asterisk after his or her name, you will find your person in this book.  You can also find this book on the internet at http://www.link75.org/bhm/four/libby/fmp/home.html.

And don't forget to use the encyclopedias!

Some of the places you can find information about our people are listed after their names.  The people we are studying are:

L.L. Bean
Top Entrepreneurs and Their Businesses, by Robert B. Pile

Abby Burgess
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie, by Peter and Connie Roop
http://www.mariner.org/exhibits/women/lighthouse/abbie.htm
http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent/1,12044,MLburgess,00.html

Rachel Carson*
Rachel Carson, Friend of Nature, by Carol Greene
http://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/articlearchives/womhst/rachel.htm
http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/PA_Env-Her/rachel.htm

Joshua Chamberlain
http://www.curtislibrary.com/pejepscot/joshbiog.htm
http://www.civilwarhome.com/jlchamberlainbio.htm
http://www.joshuachamberlain.com/

Barbara Cooney
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/Exhibits/cooney/conyfpg.htm
http://www.carolhurst.com/newsletters/32dnewsletters.html
http://www.edupaperback.org/authorbios/Cooney_Barbara.html

Cornelia "Fly Rod" Crosby*
http://www.tilburyhouse.com/Maine%20Frames/me_flyrod_fr.html
http://www.ddgbooks.com/ddg010401.htm

Dorothea Dix*
Great Lives: Human Rights, by William Jay Jacobs
http://www.greatamericanwomen.com/dix.htm
http://www.mfh.org/specialprojects/shwlp/site/honorees/dix.html
http://www.dhhs.state.nc.us/mhddsas/DIX/dorothea.html

Chester Greenwood
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blgreenwood.htm
http://www.uspto.gov/go/kids/twinktales.htm

Hannibal Hamlin*
http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/vp/vphamlin.html
http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/PoliticsAndPoliticians/hannibalhamlin.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhamlinH.htm

Dahlov Ipcar
http://www.georgetown.u47.k12.me.us/grade4/clara/ipcar.html
http://www.exitfive.com/dahlov/
http://www.link75.org/bcs/Publish%20C/MainelyWomen/DIpcar.html
http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/3aa/3aa84.htm

Stephen King
http://www.utopianweb.com/king/bio.asp
http://www.veinotte.com/king/bio.htm
http://www.kingofhorror.com/biography.htm

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow*
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, edited by Frances Schoonmaker (Poetry for Young People)
http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/longfellow_bio.html
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St Vincent Millay, edited by Frances Schoonmaker (Poetry for Young People)
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=161
http://members.aol.com/MillayGirl/millay.htm

Molly Spotted Elk*
http://www.avcnet.org/ne-do-ba/bio_moly.html

Edmund Muskie*
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0834574.html
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M001121

Joan Benoit Samuelson
http://www.uma.maine.edu/libraries/MWHOF_Website/alibjbsamuelson.html  http://www.uma.maine.edu/libraries/MWHOF_Website/alibjbsamuelson.html
http://www.makeithappen.com/wis/bios/benoitj.html
http://sports.mainetoday.com/running/musca/020719joan.shtml

Margaret Chase Smith*
http://www.mcslibrary.org/bio/biog.htm
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000590

Samantha Smith
http://wwwsmi.lkwash.wednet.edu/Samantha_Smith.htm
http://www.ucando.org/ssmith.html
http://www.salsa.net/peace/faces/smith.html

Louis Sockalexis*
http://www.baseballreliquary.org/story_of_sockalexis.htm
http://www.nd.edu/~ndmag/w2000_01/clevew00.html
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/all_time_stats/players/s/49084/

The Stanley brothers
Look Out!  Here Comes the Stanley Steamer, by K.C. Tessendorf
http://www.canadiandriver.com/articles/bv/stanley.htm
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0772568.html

Harriet Beecher Stowe
http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/great/2derek.htm
http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/women/stowe/StoweHB.html
http://lkwdpl.org/wihohio/stow-har.htm

Peleg Wadsworth
http://www.famousamericans.net/pelegwadsworth/
http://www.imaginemaine.com/directories/Archives/Wadsworth.html

Cadwallader Washburn*
http://members.tripod.com/~wisconsin2/washburn.htm
http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=20529
http://www.multied.com/Bio/UGENS/USAWashburn.html

Andrew Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth, by Richard Meryman
http://lala.essortment.com/biographyandrew_rgwd.htm
http://www.nothinbutprints.com/artistbios/wyethandrew.shtml
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/4547/wyeth.html