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Keywords: Madness

Historical Items

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Item 152258

"Horrid Murder" pamphlet, Boston, 1818

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1818 Location: Augusta Media: Ink on paper

Item 29373

Pierre Painchaud as 'The Mad Miser,' Biddeford, ca. 1899

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1899 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 62486

5-7 Mayo Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Mads F. Jacobson Use: Dwelling - Two family

Item 59572

31 Kellogg Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Heirs of Mads N. Bruns. Use: Dwelling - Two family

Online Exhibits

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Music in Maine - Rock and Roll, Punk, and Elvis

"… World, Radiation) to baby boomer angst (Mad as Hell, End of the World), Mideast war protests (The Desert is a Bitch), and science fiction fantasy…"

Exhibit

War Through the Eyes of a Young Sailor

Eager to deal with the "Sesech" [Secessionists], young deepwater sailor John Monroe Dillingham of Freeport enlisted in the U.S. Navy as soon as he returned from a long voyage in 1862. His letters and those of his family offer first-hand insight into how one individual viewed the war.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Artists and Inventors of Biddeford

"Pierre Painchaud as 'The Mad Miser,' Biddeford, ca. 1899McArthur Public Library It was an atmosphere ripe for discovery of new ways of doing things."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 1 of 3

"… took down there to get the car, he was really mad at us. After I stopped working for the dairy farm, I worked cleaning cars and as a grease monkey."

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… ACRE ISLAND Preferring to get away from the madding crowd on Islesboro, some of the early settlers chose to build homesteads on 700 Acre Island."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Isolation!
by Leslie

Having only moved to Maine alone 8 months prior, had to freeze my life

Story

The $ame Band
by Mike Laskey

Maine's punk rock band, 1977

Story

The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona

Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.