Maine Memory Network

People, Pets & Portraits

Informal family photos often include family pets -- but formal, studio portraits and paintings also often feature one person and one pet, in formal attire and pose.

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Neal Dow

"… purchased with funds from the Edward Foley Memorial Fund 1997.245 When Civil War came, the Napoleon of Temperance took his campaign to the front by…"

Hannibal Hamlin of Paris Hill

2009 marked the bicentennials of the births of Abraham Lincoln and his first vice president, Hannibal Hamlin of Maine. To observe the anniversary, Paris Hill, where Hamlin was born and raised, honored the native statesman and recalled both his early life in the community and the mark he made on Maine and the nation.

Lillian Nordica: Farmington Diva

Lillian Norton, known as Nordica, was one of the best known sopranos in America and the world at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She was a native of Farmington.

George W. Hinckley and Needy Boys and Girls

George W. Hinckley wanted to help needy boys. The farm, school and home he ran for nearly sixty nears near Fairfield stressed home, religion, education, discipline, industry, and recreation.

Student Exhibit: Save the Skowhegan Grange & Granges in General

A brief history of the Grange in Skowhegan, its importance to community history, and a plea to save it from destruction.

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Wadsworth Era: 1786-1807

"… poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was named in his memory. Alexander Scammell Wadsworth (1790–1851) was the ninth child of Peleg and Elizabeth…"

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - Researching Your Home

"… Society is digitizing and putting on Maine Memory Network. This is an ongoing project. You can also contact the Bridgton Historical Society."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Society Copes

"Gould's memories of 1920, Yankee Storekeeper , 1946 X Medicinal Mount Vernon Pure Rye Whiskey, ca. 1925 Courtesy of the Charles E."

Music in Maine - Longfellow Family Music

"… to the Maine Historical Society to honor the memory of her brother, the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Jacob S."

Music in Maine - Music Education

"For children and adults, music helps strengthen memory skills. Robert Cheney posing with ukulele, Sanford, 1931Maine Historical…"

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"… costume worn by Lillian Nordica in 1898Nordica Memorial Association Lillian Nordica as Brunnhilde, 1898Nordica Memorial Association In…"

Chansonetta Stanley Emmons: Staging the Past

Chansonetta Stanley Emmons (1858-1937) of Kingfield, Maine, experimented with the burgeoning artform of photography. Starting in 1897, Emmons documented the lives of people, many in rural and agricultural regions in Maine and around the world. Often described as recalling a bygone era, this exhibition features glass plate negatives and painted lantern slides from the collections of the Stanley Museum in Kingfield on deposit at Maine Historical Society, that present a time of rapid change, from 1897 to 1926.

A Town Is Born: South Bristol, 1915

After being part of the town of Bristol for nearly 150 years, residents of South Bristol determined that their interests would be better served by becoming a separate town and they broke away from the large community of Bristol.

How Sweet It Is

Desserts have always been a special treat. For centuries, Mainers have enjoyed something sweet as a nice conclusion to a meal or celebrate a special occasion. But many things have changed over the years: how cooks learn to make desserts, what foods and tools were available, what was important to people.

Northern Threads: Civil War-era clothing

An exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads, Part 1," featuring American Civil War civilian and military clothing, 1860 to 1869.

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Longfellow Era: 1807-1901

"… on us children under the old roof tree…so long as memory of our dear parents lives within us." She was the last family member to occupy the house."

High Water

Melting snow, ice, warmer temperatures, and rain sometimes bring floods to Maine's many rivers and streams. Floods are most frequent in the spring, but can occur at any season.

The Public Face of Christmas

Christmas, a Christian holiday observed by many Mainers, has a very public, seasonal face that makes it visible to those of all beliefs.

Student Exhibit: Can You Help Our Free Skowhegan Public Library?

The Skowhegan Free Public Library was built in 1889 with money donated by Abner Coburn and the town of Skowhegan. Mr. Coburn left $30,000 in his will towards the building of the library. In 2005, for the library to fully keep up with their programs need to make some renovations. These changes would allow for more use of technology, more room for children's programs, and provide handicap accessibility.

Northern Threads: Adaptive reuse

A themed vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring up-cycled and reused historic fabrics.

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Women Leaders and Temperance

"X Frances E. Willard Memorial Postcard 1898 Courtesy of the Charles E. Burden Collection X Which Shall it Be: The Work of The Mill or the…"

Music in Maine - Country Music

"… County on the famed Haynesville Road, which he memorialized in the song. The doom-filled trucking song hit #5 on the country Billboard chart in…"

Music in Maine - Bluegrass Music

"… local musicians and promoters, and preserving the memory of the Maine bluegrass pioneers. BMAM is a member of the International Bluegrass Music…"