Maine Memory Network

First National Store, Biddeford, ca. 1940

Contributed by: An individual through Biddeford Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Raymond Howard in Howard's Drygoods Store, Dixfield, 1965

Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society Date: 1965 Location: Dixfield Media: Color transparency slide

1920 Forest Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Alonzo T. Thompson Use: Dwelling & Store

27-37 India Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: John W. Connolly Use: Dwelling - Three Family & Store

Nuclear Energy for Maine?

Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Wiscasset generated electricity from 1972 until 1996. Activists concerned about the plant's safety led three unsuccessful referendum campaigns in the 1980s to shut it down.

The Kotzschmar Memorial Organ

A fire and two men whose lives were entwined for more than 50 years resulted in what is now considered to be "the Jewel of Portland" -- the Austin organ that was given to the city of Portland in 1912.

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"Raymond Wallace Three 10th grade students interviewed resident Raymond Wallace, age 76, and his wife at their home in Thomaston."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block

"Anthony Coombs Raymond was the master builder for the Universalist Church. He also designed the Winter Street Church on Washington Street in Bath…"

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.

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