Publication history: First published in 2023 as an illustrated historical study of Fryeburg, Maine.
Fryeburg, Maine: An Illustrated History (2023) is a material and visual study of Fryeburg’s past, grounded in archival research, landscape analysis, and the town’s surviving material record. Rather than presenting a conventional chronological narrative, the book examines how settlement, land use, domestic labor, and community memory become visible through maps, photographs, objects, and documentary traces.
The book represents the first phase of a longer research trajectory focused on material culture, land records, and visual evidence in the Saco River Valley.
The book situates Fryeburg within a deeper Indigenous landscape, acknowledging Native presence, mobility, and knowledge systems that predate colonial settlement.
Penobscot birchbark plaque reflecting Penobscot cosmology and relationship to the natural world, distinct from colonial theological frameworks. Featured on the cover of Abenaki by Colin Calloway (1989).
