Keywords: Pirateering
Item 190
Affidavit of capture and imprisonment aboard ship, 1842
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1842-08-22 Location: Portland Media: Color transparency
Item 18434
Pirates of Penzance, Ricker Classical Institute, Houlton, 1926
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1926 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
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 Page
Guilford, Maine - SPORTS - Page 3 of 3
"… we now have a middle school team and we have a Pirate Recreation program that starts our little Pirates out young! So the next time you're rolling…"
Site Page
Guilford, Maine - SPORTS - Page 2 of 3
"Webb Pirates Basketball was a very big sport in the 1900s. Over the years they won 10 championships."
Story
Maine and the Atlantic World Slave Economy
by Seth Goldstein
How Maine's historic industries are tied to slavery
Story
Growing up DownEast
by Darrin MC Mclellan
Stories of growing up Downeast
