Maine Memory Network

Youth radio panel, 1953

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1953 Location: Maine Media: Photographic print

WMPG 90.9 and 104.1 t-shirt, Portland, ca. 2004

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 2004 Location: Portland Media: Cotton, ink
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569-575 Brighton Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Eoline M Wilson Use: Filling Station & Store

Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music

"… with Bangor called “the Nashville of the North.” Radio stations developed regional broadcasts like Lewiston’s bilingual WCOU’s 'Noisiest Gang on…"

Harry Lyon: An Old Sea Dog Takes to the Air

Through a chance meeting, Harry Lyon of Paris Hill became the navigator on the 1928 flight of the Southern Cross, the first trans-Pacific flight. His skill as a navigator, despite his lack of experience, was a key factor on the flight's success.

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ice Storm Poem

"… playing cards by candlelight with battery-run radios humming to fill silence. Ice gripped the land with a hard hand as it softened neighbors’…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The McCormick house

"… her late husband Stephen McCormick, the longtime radio and television broadcaster who, among other things, broadcast President Franklin D."

Elizabeth Mantis Spiliopoulos: passion for life & Greek heritage
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

A spunky 99-year-old shares her crystal-clear recollections of all the changes in her lifetime

His First Television Set in the 1950s
by Murray A. Bolduc

Murray A. Bolduc talked about his first TV set in the 1950s