Maine Memory Network

Student Exhibit: The Great By-Pass

The debate over a proposed bridge and bypass in Skowhegan in 2005.

Music in Maine - Music Makers

"… to be easily Separated." The reverse highlights instrument makers with, "Our Chords of earthly Harmony lead to the regions of the Golden Harp.""

Music in Maine - Sacred Music

"… services, adding chord awareness and four-part harmonies. Simple Gifts written in 1848 by Maine’s Elder Joseph Brackett of Alfred Shaker Village…"

Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music

"… age three, intuitively singing the third part harmony. Born in Auburn, Lenny Breau (1941-1984) toured and played music with his parents Betty Cody…"

Elise Fellows White: Music, Writing, and Family

From a violin prodigy in her early years to an older woman -- mother of two -- struggling financially, Skowhegan native Mary Elise Fellows White remained committed to music, writing, poetry, her extended family -- and living a life that would matter and be remembered.

Civil War Soldiers Impact Pittsfield

Although not everyone in town supported the war effort, more than 200 Pittsfield men served in Civil War regiments. Several reminders of their service remain in the town.

Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.

Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine

BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.