Maine Memory Network

Cadet training camp musician, Harpswell, 1896

Can you identify the man with the autoharp?

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1896 Location: Harpswell Media: Photoprint

Buffalo Bill Cody, ca. 1887

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1887 Location: London Media: Photographic print

Cape Cottage Park, Cape Elizabeth, ca. 1925

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1924–1926 Location: Cape Elizabeth Client: Cape Cottage Park Company Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

George Barnes vacation home, Houlton, 1952

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1952 Location: Houlton Client: George Barnes Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Fair Season: Crops, Livestock, and Entertainment

Agricultural fairs, intended to promote new techniques and better farming methods, have been held since the early 19th century. Before long, entertainments were added to the educational focus of the early fairs.

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.

Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House Text by Claire Keating and Billy Price 7th Grade students at Bath Middle School With images from the Patten…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Student Exhibits

"… Customs House Davenport Memorial and City Hall Entertainment Venues - Dreamland and Liberty Entertainment Venues - The Alameda and The Opera House…"

Princess Watahwaso
by Jason Pardilla (Penobscot)

A story about Lucy Nicolar Poolaw (1882-1869)

Keeping Dance and Music Alive
by Cindy Larock

Cindy Larock's involvement in the traditional music and dance scene in Maine for over 40 years.

What Remains: Learning about Maine Populations through Burial Customs

Grade Level: 6-8 Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual & Performing Arts
This lesson plan will give students an overview of how burial sites and gravestone material culture can assist historians and archaeologists in discovering information about people and migration over time. Students will learn how new scholarship can help to dispel harmful archaeological myths, look into the roles of religion and ethnicity in early Maine and New England immigrant and colonial settlements, and discover how to track changes in population and social values from the 1600s to early 1900s based on gravestone iconography and epitaphs.

Primary Sources: Daily Life in 1820

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12 Content Area: Social Studies
This lesson plan will give students the opportunity to explore and analyze primary source documents from the years before, during, and immediately after Maine became the 23rd state in the Union. Through close looking at documents, objects, and art from Maine during and around 1820, students will ask questions and draw informed conclusions about life at the time of statehood.