Keywords: Missionary work
Item 9168
French missionary Romagne to Governor Caleb Strong about Wabanaki land grant, Dennysville, 1801
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1801-01-02 Location: Dennysville; Pleasant Point Media: Ink on paper
Item 148791
Contributed by: Maine Seacoast Mission Date: 2001 Location: Matinicus Isle Media: Photocopy
Exhibit
Father John Bapst: Catholicism's Defender and Promoter
Father John Bapst, a Jesuit, knew little of America or Maine when he arrived in Old Town in 1853 from Switzerland. He built churches and defended Roman Catholics against Know-Nothing activists, who tarred and feathered the priest in Ellsworth in 1854.
Exhibit
In 1857, when Daniel Cough left Amoy Island, China, as a stowaway on a sailing ship from Mt. Desert Island he was on his way into history as the first Chinese person to make his home in Maine. He was soon followed by a cigar maker and a tea merchant who settled in Portland and then by many more Chinese men who spread all over Maine working mostly as laundrymen.
Site Page
""We found all kinds of evidence of a productive, local-based economy…. It looks to me like they worked pretty hard… So they weren’t just casually…"
Site Page
Malaga Island: a story best left untold - About the Project
"All told, in the three years of part-time work on this project, I recorded approximately fifty hours of interviews, Kate took thousands of photos…"
Story
Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey
Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
