Keywords: Monhegan
Item 101379
Cleaning fish, Monhegan, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Monhegan Museum Date: circa 1880 Location: Monhegan Media: Photographic print
Item 101367
Contributed by: Monhegan Museum Date: 1937-08-16 Location: Monhegan Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Enemies at Sea, Companions in Death
Lt. William Burrows and Commander Samuel Blyth, commanders of the USS Enterprise and the HMS Boxer, led their ships and crews in Battle in Muscongus Bay on Sept. 5, 1813. The American ship was victorious, but both captains were killed. Portland staged a large and regal joint burial.
Exhibit
Capturing Arts and Artists in the 1930s
Emmie Bailey Whitney of the Lewiston Journal Saturday Magazine and her husband, noted amateur photographer G. Herbert Whitney, captured in words and photographs the richness of Maine's arts scene during the Great Depression.
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative
"… Society In 1605, after making landfall at Monhegan, Captain Waymouth re-anchored his ship Archangel off the islands at the base of the St."
Site Page
Maine's Road to Statehood - After the War: The First Victory for Separationists
"Brig Enterprise and the British Brig Boxer off of Monhegan Island. The separation movement stood at a standstill during the War of 1812, as…"
Story
Saga of a Sub Chaser S.C. 268 along Maine Coast
by DANIEL R CHRISTOPHER
A look back at a Sub Chaser Crew on duty along the Maine coastline near the end of World War I
Story
One of the first abstract painters in Maine
by William Manning
I have grown as a painter in ways I might not have if I moved to New York
