Maine Memory Network

General Philip H. Sheridan, ca. 1860

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1860 Media: Carte de visite

William Haley, Jr. letter to his wife, Miriam, near Washington, D.C., 1865

Contributed by: Sebago Historical Society Date: 1865-05-14 Location: Sebago; Washington Media: Ink on paper

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Summer's Favorite Game

Baseball often is called the National Pastime. For many people, baseball is encountered in the backyard and down the street, a game played by a few or the full contingent of a team.

Graduation Season

Graduations -- and schools -- in the 19th through the first decade of the 20th century often were small affairs and sometimes featured student presentations that demonstrated what they had learned. They were not necessarily held in May or June, what later became the standard "end of the school year."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Canoe race, Kenduskeag Stream, Bangor, 1865

"… Fransoway and Mitchel Peopl Susup the General Sheridan, Sappiel Sockalexis and Louis Sockabasin the Sharpshooter, and Newel Nicola and Horace…"

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars