Keywords: grandfathers
Item 9895
Margaret and Grandpa, Skowhegan, ca. 1902
Contributed by: Margaret Chase Smith Library Date: circa 1902 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print
Item 104527
Portrait of Adam Winslow and his grandson Adam, ca. 1860
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1860 Location: Falmouth Media: Ambrotype
Item 111730
Alterations to house for F. O. Conant, 1904
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1904 Client: F. O. Conant Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Item 111882
Churchill House on State St., Portland, 1928-1934
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1928–1934 Location: Portland Client: Major Gist. Blair Architect: Binford & Wadsworth
Exhibit
Student Exhibit: Logging on Kennebec River
I became interested in the Kennebec River log drive when my grandfather would tell me stories. He remembers watching the logs flow down the river from his home in Fairfield, a small town along the Kennebec River.
Exhibit
Student Exhibit: Bloomfield Academy
In 1842, the new Bloomfield Academy was constructed in Skowhegan. The new brick building replaced the very first Bloomfield Academy, a small wooden building that had been built in 1814 and served as the high school until 1871. After that, it housed elementary school classes until 1980.
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Marion Sanborn
"But my grandfather, like I said, my two grandfathers…I’ve never seen more patient people in my life."
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Flora Brooks, Lying in Repose, 1922
"Her great-grandfather, Francis Tufts was an original settler, and the family continues to reside in the area."
Story
Catching live bait with Grandfather
by Randy Randall
We never bought live bait for fishing. Grandfather caught all the minnows and shiners we needed.
Story
Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall
Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.