Maine Memory Network

One dollar bank note from the Central Bank, Gray, 1857

Courtesy of June Contreras, an individual partner Date: 1857 Location: Gray Media: tissue paper

Twenty dollar bank note from New England Bank, Fairmount, 1857

Courtesy of June Contreras, an individual partner Date: 1857 Location: Bangor Media: tissue paper

599-605 Forest Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Seth P Carr Use: Dwelling - Two family

Solomons property, Church Road, Cliff Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Viola M. Solomons Use: Summer Dwelling

Institute for Advanced Study Rubenstein Commons fence planting plan, Princeton, NJ, 2013-2014

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2013–2014 Location: Princeton Client: Institute for Advanced Studies Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

Institute for Advanced Studies Fuld Hall entry garden, Princeton, NJ, 1971-2013

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1971–2013 Location: Princeton Client: Institute for Advanced Studies Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

Of Note: Maine Sheet Music

Of Note: Maine Sheet Music features captivating covers of original sheet music along with stories about Maine connections to the songs. Before people had easy access to popular music from records, radios, and the internet, they played songs of the day on instruments at home, using sheet music purchased at music stores. Iconic Maine subjects like lobsters, pine trees, and winter were perfect for lyrics sung by luminaries like Rudy Vallée of Westbrook, and intricate artwork of Maine’s landscape graced the sheet music covers.

Bookplates Honor Annie Louise Cary

A summer resident of Wayne collected more than 3,000 bookplates to honor Maine native and noted opera singer Annie Louise Cary and to support the Cary Memorial Library.

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Summary Notes

"Ice Storm Summary Notes Terrible Beauty During the ice storm of 1998 their were many icicles on the trees, sun shining on the ground covered with…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - SEE NOTES "What the book said to the Boy". Library bookmark.

"SEE NOTES "What the book said to the Boy". Library bookmark. Contributed by Farmington Public Library Description Commercially printed…"

A Note from a Maine-American
by William Dow Turner

With 7 generations before statehood, and 5 generations since, Maine DNA carries on.

Betty Cody, country music legend
by Maine Historical Society

Betty Cody is noted as Maine's most recognized female singer

Longfellow Studies: "The Jewish Cemetery at Newport"

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12 Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Longfellow's poem "The Jewish Cemetery at Newport" opens up the issue of the earliest history of the Jews in America, and the significant roles they played as businessmen and later benefactors to the greater community. The history of the building itself is notable in terms of early American architecture, its having been designed, apparently gratis, by the most noted architect of the day. Furthermore, the poem traces the history of Newport as kind of a microcosm of New England commercial cities before the industrialization boom. For almost any age student the poem could be used to open up interest in local cemeteries, which are almost always a wealth of curiousities and history. Longfellow and his friends enjoyed exploring cemeteries, and today our little local cemeteries can be used to teach little local histories and parts of the big picture as well. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow visited the Jewish cemetery in Newport, RI on July 9, 1852. His popular poem about the site, published two years later, was certainly a sympathetic portrayal of the place and its people. In addition to Victorian romantic musings about the "Hebrews in their graves," Longfellow includes in this poem references to the historic persecution of the Jews, as well as very specific references to their religious practices. Since the cemetery and the nearby synagogue were restored and protected with an infusion of funding just a couple years after Longfellow's visit, and later a congregation again assembled, his gloomy predictions about the place proved false (never mind the conclusion of the poem, "And the dead nations never rise again!"). Nevertheless, it is a fascinating poem, and an interesting window into the history of the nation's oldest extant synagogue.