Maine Memory Network

Beech tree on Stanley Hill, Kingfield, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Stanley Museum on deposit at Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Kingfield Media: Lantern slide, hand colored

First concert, Eastern Music Camp, 1931

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1931-07-19 Location: Sidney Media: Photographic print

Most Inconvenient Storm

A Portland newspaper wrote about an ice storm of January 28, 1886 saying, "The city of Portland was visited yesterday by the most inconvenient storm of the season."

Indians at the Centennial

Passamaquoddy Indians from Washington County traveled to Portland in 1920 to take part in the Maine Centennial Exposition. They set up an "Indian Village" at Deering Oaks Park.

John Martin: Expert Observer - Duchess Anjoulene apple, Bangor, 1866

"… produced ten apples, color & size as below, the trunk of the tree as large as a mans fore finger the branches which had the fruit as large as a…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"… had opened in 1848 and later became the Grand Trunk Railway. The second rail line was merged with the Maine Central Railroad system in 1871."

The Point
by Norma K. Salway

In the summer, on the eastern shore of Songo, kids dove from a leaning tree

Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall

Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.