Maine Memory Network

Deer Isle Bridge, Sedgwick, ca. 1938

Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1938 Location: Sedgwick Media: Linen texture postcard

Little Deer Island, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Deer Isle Media: Photoprint

Deering Heirs property, S. side Island, Great Diamond Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Deering Heirs Use: Dwelling

Deering Heirs property, S. side of Island, Great Diamond Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Deering Heirs Use: Barn

B.S.A. cottage, Chebeague Island, 1936

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1936 Location: Chebeague Island Client: Council B.S.A. Architect: John Calvin Stevens II

Felsted, Deer Island, 1906

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1906 Location: Deer Island Client: unknown Architect: Olmsted Brothers

Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Drinking: Elegance and Debauchery

"The Deering farm on the island included a cider press. X Wine Caster for a traveling case, ca."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"In 1857 the Rockland's Captain, Charles Deering, added Bar Harbor to his stops. The next year he opened the Deering House, Bar Harbor's second hotel."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment

"… variety of aboriginal trinkets, skins of seal and deer, baskets of birch-bark, moccasins, bead-work, snow-shows, gulls’ breasts, stuffed birds…"

My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne

Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima

A Note from a Maine-American
by William Dow Turner

With 7 generations before statehood, and 5 generations since, Maine DNA carries on.