Keywords: soldiers Fourth of July
Item 9627
Soldiers at WWI victory celebration, Houlton, July 4, 1919
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1917-07-04 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Item 16319
Fourth of July in Market Square, Houlton, ca. 1898
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1898 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
George F. Shepley: Lawyer, Soldier, Administrator
George F. Shepley of Portland had achieved renown as a lawyer and as U.S. Attorney for Maine when, at age 42 he formed the 12th Maine Infantry and went off to war. Shepley became military governor of Louisiana early in 1862 and remained in the military for the duration of the war.
Exhibit
The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.
Story
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
