Maine Memory Network

Pepperell Cotton House fire, Biddeford, October 30, 1915

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1915-10-30 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Flooded urban street, 1936

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1936 Media: Glass Negative

Photojournalism & the 1936 Flood

Photojournalism & the 1936 Flood examines the monumental destruction caused by the historic flood of 1936 through the comprehensive and innovative photojournalism done by the Guy Gannett Publishing Company in the weeks surrounding the flood.

Samantha Smith's Questions

Samantha Smith, a Manchester schoolgirl, gained international fame in 1983 by asking Soviet leader Yuri Andropov whether he intended to start a nuclear war and then visiting the Soviet Union to be reassured that no one there wanted war.

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"A significant and financially catastrophic fire happened at the Hotel Rumford on Exchange Street in November, 1929."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"Another early catastrophic event in 1816 was “the year without a summer.” A frost occurred in every month and there was no corn raised, a staple food…"

Eating lower on the food chain
by Avery Yale Kamila

Animal agriculture's ties to climate change

Two-minute Tale of the Pandemic
by Nancy Creighton Collins

What everyday life was like during the beginning of the pandemic.