Maine Memory Network

Albert A. Kenney, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Brewer Public Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Brewer Media: Photographic print

Pejepscot Company Records, Volume 4, 1627-1866

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1627–1866 Location: Brunswick Media: Ink on paper

Fallen Heroes: Jewish Soldiers and Sailors, The Great War

Thirty-four young Jewish men from Maine died in the service of their country in the two World Wars. This project, including a Maine Memory Network exhibit, is meant to say a little something about some of them. More than just names on a public memorial marker or grave stone, these men were getting started in adult life. They had newly acquired high school and college diplomas, they had friends, families and communities who loved and valued them, and felt the losses of their deaths.

Fashionable Maine: early twentieth century clothing

Maine residents kept pace with the dramatic shift in women’s dress that occurred during the short number of years preceding and immediately following World War I. The long restrictive skirts, stiff collars, body molding corsets and formal behavior of earlier decades quickly faded away and the new straight, dropped waist easy-to-wear clothing gave mobility and freedom of movement in tune with the young independent women of the casual, post-war jazz age generation.

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"Frances Libbey, a Scarborough teacher, wrote to local servicemen and women--well over one hundred. Her chatty letters full of local news provided a…"