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Pamela Snow Sweetser is an educator, historian, and farmer. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English, a master’s degree in Colonial U.S. History, and is ABD in U.S. Women’s History at the University of Maine, Orono. Now retired from full-time teaching, she does adjunct work at Northern Maine Community College in Presque Isle, Maine. As an historical researcher and author, Pamela has presented at history conferences throughout the northeast such as the Rural Women’s Studies Association Triennial Conferences, the Deerfield-Wellesley Symposium, the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, and the Norlands Conference. Her historical and educational articles have been published by Boston University Press, Yale University Press, and the National Council of Teachers of English.
Pamela manages and co-owns Raymond Brook Farm, LLC, and Snow Country Creations, LLC, Presque Isle, Maine. The farm has been in the Sweetser family since 1858 and has never gone out of agricultural production. She and her husband live in the same house that once belonged to his grandmother, Amy Richardson Sweetser, subject of Pamela’s Rural Women’s Studies Weblog posts: Gramie Sweetser Drove a REO:  diaries of an Aroostook County, Maine, farm wife, 1920-1956.
An avid horsewoman, Pamela had a successful career as a long-distance competitive trail rider and endurance racer on the Nova Scotia-New England-New York circuit from 1988 until 2003. She is an enthusiastic traveler who has crisscrossed America tenting in the deserts and mountain forests of the West, attending Broadway plays and exploring famous big city museums. Her finest accomplishments, though, are two successful sons and her grandchildren.