Poland Spring and About There

Poland Spring and About There
Author: Frank Carlos Griffith
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781022143401

This book provides a comprehensive history of Poland Spring, a popular mineral spring in Maine. The author, Frank Carlos Griffith, explores the geology and chemistry of the mineral water, as well as the development of the resort around the spring. He also delves into the marketing strategies used to promote Poland Spring as a healthful destination, and the resort's place in cultural history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Poland Spring and about There - Scholar's Choice Edition

Poland Spring and about There - Scholar's Choice Edition
Author: Frank Carlos Griffith
Publisher: Scholar's Choice
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2015-02-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781296358822

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Poland Spring

Poland Spring
Author: David Richards
Publisher: University Press of New England
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

An interdisciplinary examination of Gilded Age American enterprise, in a study of how one family farm developed into a world-famous business.

Poland Spring

Poland Spring
Author: Poland Spring Preservation Society
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2009-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738565750

In 1794, Jabez Ricker traded his land in Alfred to the local Shaker community for property in present-day Poland. Shortly after his arrival, travelers came looking for a place to stay, and the Ricker family began its first inn. In 1844, Hiram Ricker, a grandson of Jabez, discovered the curative powers of the mineral spring on the property and began to share the water with family and friends. Within another half century, sales of the water prompted the building of the Poland Spring House, a summer hotel that eventually had more than 500 rooms and the first golf course at a resort in the country; the purchase of the Maine State Building from the 1893 Worldas Columbian Exposition in Chicago; and many other ingenious and trend-setting innovations.

Bottlemania

Bottlemania
Author: Elizabeth Royte
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2011-01-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1608196631

Second only to soda, bottled water is on the verge of becoming the most popular beverage in the country. The brands have become so ubiquitous that we're hardly conscious that Poland Spring and Evian were once real springs, bubbling in remote corners of Maine and France. Only now, with the water industry trading in the billions of dollars, have we begun to question what it is we're drinking. In this intelligent, accomplished work of narrative journalism, Elizabeth Royte does for water what Michael Pollan did for food: she finds the people, machines, economies, and cultural trends that bring it from distant aquifers to our supermarkets. Along the way, she investigates the questions we must inevitably answer. Who owns our water? How much should we drink? Should we have to pay for it? Is tap safe water safe to drink? And if so, how many chemicals are dumped in to make it potable? What happens to all those plastic bottles we carry around as predictably as cell phones? And of course, what's better: tap water or bottled?

Bottled and Sold

Bottled and Sold
Author: Peter H. Gleick
Publisher: Island Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2010-04-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1597265284

Water went from being a free natural resource to one of the most successful commercial products of the last one hundred years. That's a big story, and water is big business. Gleick exposes the true reasons we've turned to the bottle, from fear mongering by business interests and our own vanity to the breakdown of public systems and global inequities.

Poland Spring

Poland Spring
Author: Poland Spring Preservation Society
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2009-08-03
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1439637601

In 1794, Jabez Ricker traded his land in Alfred to the local Shaker community for property in present-day Poland. Shortly after his arrival, travelers came looking for a place to stay, and the Ricker family began its first inn. In 1844, Hiram Ricker, a grandson of Jabez, discovered the curative powers of the mineral spring on the property and began to share the water with family and friends. Within another half century, sales of the water prompted the building of the Poland Spring House, a summer hotel that eventually had more than 500 rooms and the first golf course at a resort in the country; the purchase of the Maine State Building from the 1893 Worlds Columbian Exposition in Chicago; and many other ingenious and trend-setting innovations.