Keywords: Conviction
Item 152238
Unidentified couple holding pamphlet, ca. 1852
Contributed by: Private Collection through Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1852 Location: Maine Media: Daguerreotype
Item 20150
Reward for cemetery damage, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1870 Location: Wiscasset Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Anglo-Americans in northern New England sometimes interpreted their own anxieties about the Wilderness, their faith, and their conflicts with Native Americans as signs that the Devil and his handmaidens, witches, were active in their midst.
Exhibit
Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Maine State Prison
"… 1820, a prison was required to provide for state convicts. William King owned a large tract of land in Thomaston, formerly owned by General Henry…"
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison is Established - 1823
"… a committee of three to study the punishment of convicts and the establishment of a prison. He had a great interest in the reformation of criminals…"
Story
Don Bisson - Living his convictions
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center Voices of Biddeford project
Returning after a career in New York City, Don has dedicated his life to addressing food insecurity.
Story
Who do you want living next door?
by anonymous
The writer reflects on the lack of mental health services for Maine's incarcerated individuals.
