If you go to your local library they have access to libraries (and consequently old cookbooks) from all over the state. Churches used to collect family recipes, bind them and sell them as fund raisers. Baked beans are the quintessential Maine food. Every family does them a little differently, but always from dried beans, which are soaked all night and then cook all day in that wood stove that’s blazing all day anyway to heat the house. Potatoes boiled with the jackets on. Finnan Haddie and red flannel hash. Can’t say I’m a fan of these but the names are worth the price of admission. With beans my Dad always had “brown bread” which came in a can.