Maine Memory Network

Owl Brand potato bag, Bridgewater, ca. 1955

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1955 Location: Bridgewater Media: Paper

Art of the People: Folk Art in Maine

For many different reasons people saved and carefully preserved the objects in this exhibit. Eventually, along with the memories they hold, the objects were passed to the Maine Historical Society. Object and memory, serve as a powerful way to explore history and to connect to the lives of people in the past.

Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine

BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Selectmen Patten and Bradbury, fearing that the British would burn their village, negotiated a $30,000 bond, a considerable sum for those days."