Maine Memory Network

Walter Mansur and E. B. White, Aroostook Woods, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1895 Media: Photographic print

Appalachian Trail Cook Tent, Millinocket, 1935

Contributed by: Maine Conservation Corps Date: 1935 Location: Millinocket; Lakewood Media: Photographic print

158 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: James H McDonald Use: Store & Storage

Summer Camps

Maine is home to dozens of summer-long youth camps and untold numbers of day camps that take advantage of water, woods, and fresh air. While the children, counselors, and other staff come to Maine in the summer, the camps live on throughout the year and throughout the lives of many of the campers.

A Tale of Two Sailmakers

Camden has been home to generations of fishermen, shipbuilders, sailmakers, and others who make their living through the sea. The lives of two Camden sailmakers, who were born nearly a century apart, became entwined at a small house on Limerock Street.

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 5 of 17

"Even when cotton manufacturing became scarce, they worked on army tents, wagon covers, heavy drills, and jeans for military use."

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 2 of 4

"… and Cavilry have been furnished with new Sibly Tents---Tents large enough to accommodate 20 men---and such as we had for winter quarters, I and it…"

I have thought about Vietnam almost every day for 48 years
by Ted Heselton

Working as a heavy equipment operator in Vietnam

The Wall
by Michael Uhl

What it means to have beaten the odds