Maine Memory Network

True's pinworm elixir advertisement, Auburn, ca. 1851

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1851 Location: Auburn Media: Ink on paper

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Merchant's worm tablets and gargling oil, Garland, ca. 1875

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1875 Location: Garland Media: Ink on paper

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Silk Manufacturing in Westbrook

Cultivation of silkworms and manufacture of silk thread was touted as a new agricultural boon for Maine in the early 19th century. However, only small-scale silk production followed. In 1874, the Haskell Silk Co. of Westbrook changed that, importing raw silk, and producing silk machine twist threat, then fabrics, until its demise in 1930.

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 - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 1 of 4

"… “soup” that feeds the plankton, clams, mussels, worms and some fish. These creatures in turn feed larger animals such as raccoons, striped bass and…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation

"Worms were also used for bait a lot. Outside of Strong during this time period, the most popular places in Maine to fish were the Rangeley and…"

Too Small to Have a Town Drunk
by Scott Maker

Vignettes from Downeast Maine

Rug Hooking Project with a Story
by Marilyn Weymouth Seguin

My grandmother taught me the Maine craft of rug hooking when I was a child.