Maine Memory Network

Laura Val, Portland, 2009

Courtesy of Jan Pieter Van Voorst Van Beest, an individual partner Date: 2009 Location: Portland Media: Digital photograph

Olin Sewall Pettingill Jr. bookplate, ca. 1924

Contributed by: Cary Memorial Library in Wayne Date: circa 1924 Location: Wayne Media: Ink on paper

The Irish on the Docks of Portland

Many of the dockworkers -- longshoremen -- in Portland were Irish or of Irish descent. The Irish language was spoken on the docks and Irish traditions followed, including that of giving nicknames to the workers, many of whose given names were similar.

Bookplates Honor Annie Louise Cary

A summer resident of Wayne collected more than 3,000 bookplates to honor Maine native and noted opera singer Annie Louise Cary and to support the Cary Memorial Library.

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"During work on the French filmmaking pioneer Maurice Tourneur's movie Woman (1918), John van den Broeck, a 23-year-old Dutch cinematographer, slipped…"