Maine Memory Network

Church League Basketball Team, Saco and Biddeford, ca. 1938

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: circa 1938 Location: Saco; Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Deering High School boys basketball team, Portland, 1926

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1926 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative

Summer Camps

Maine is home to dozens of summer-long youth camps and untold numbers of day camps that take advantage of water, woods, and fresh air. While the children, counselors, and other staff come to Maine in the summer, the camps live on throughout the year and throughout the lives of many of the campers.

Fallen Heroes: Jewish Soldiers and Sailors, The Great War

Thirty-four young Jewish men from Maine died in the service of their country in the two World Wars. This project, including a Maine Memory Network exhibit, is meant to say a little something about some of them. More than just names on a public memorial marker or grave stone, these men were getting started in adult life. They had newly acquired high school and college diplomas, they had friends, families and communities who loved and valued them, and felt the losses of their deaths.

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"The halls also housed the village basketball teams and intense rivalries developed. To add to the fun, Seal Harbor held an annual Old-Timers…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - New Sweden Athletic Club

"… just have ski teams but hockey, boys and girls basketball, gymnastic and track teams. Even thought they had other sports, the winter ones came out…"

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

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