Maine Memory Network

Picnicking at Drews Lake, 1892

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1892-07-14 Media: Photographic print

Towboat A.B. Smith, Chesuncook, 1912

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1912 Location: Chesuncook Media: Ink on linen

Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History

After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"Three of Bickford’s boats were built in a section of a building owned by Harold Burnham.(2) Burnham had bought the old Leavitt Brothers Clam Plant…"

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

"… around 1845 by Asa Joyce, and although the back section of the house is new the front retains the original structure, as seen in its low ceilings."

In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood

An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down