4Maine State Museum is America's oldest state museum and is known to many as "Maine's Smithsonian" because of the breadth and diversity of its holdings--nearly a million objects covering every aspect of the state's cultural, biological, and geological history--and the thousands of stories its collections tell. For this book the museum selected and photographed 112 artifacts and specimens that, together, tell an epic story of the land and its people from prehistoric times to the present.