Maine Memory Network

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Acknowledgements

"… Matzke Mothers Against Drunk Driving National Gallery of Art Bevinn O'Brien Old York Historical Society, York, Maine Old Sturbridge Village Peabody…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Drinking Implements

"Schwind, Jr. Antiques GALLERIES: Drinking Implements | Taverns, People, and Scenes | Influential and Interesting Documents"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Taverns, People, and Scenes

"GALLERIES: Drinking Implements | Taverns, People, and Scenes | Influential and Interesting Documents"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Business as Usual

"GALLERIES: Politics and Enforcement | Women Leaders and Temperance | Quenching the Thirst | Business as Usual"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Influential & Interesting Documents

"GALLERIES: Drinking Implements | Taverns, People, and Scenes | Influential and Interesting Documents"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Quenching the Thirst

"… to install his mural, Rome, at the Walker Art Gallery at Bowdoin College in 1894. "In Maine I suffered much from thirst," he wrote until a waitress…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Neal Dow

"GALLERIES: A Call to Temperance | Temperance Membership | Neal Dow | Drinking: Elegance and Debauchery"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Temperance Membership

"GALLERIES: A Call to Temperance | Temperance Membership | Neal Dow | Drinking: Elegance and Debauchery"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1820 to 1865: Temperance and the Maine Law

"GALLERIES: A Call to Temperance | Temperance Membership | Neal Dow | Drinking: Elegance and Debauchery"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Society Copes

"… 1997.248 Hires Root Beer was marketed as a "great temperance drink." GALLERIES: Bootleggers vs. Police | Society Copes | Reform and Repeal"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - A Call to Temperance

"GALLERIES: A Call to Temperance | Temperance Membership | Neal Dow | Drinking: Elegance and Debauchery"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Politics and Enforcement

"GALLERIES: Politics and Enforcement | Women Leaders and Temperance | Quenching the Thirst | Business as Usual"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Bootleggers vs. Police

"… police when he attempted to buy guns at a local sporting goods store. GALLERIES: Bootleggers vs. Police | Society Copes | Reform and Repeal"

Amazing! Maine Stories

These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.

Horace W. Shaylor: Portland Penman

Horace W. Shaylor, a native of Ohio, settled in Portland and turned his focus to handwriting, developing several unique books of handwriting instruction. He also was a talented artist.

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Reform and Repeal

"After moving to Biddeford, they show the same enjoyment of life. GALLERIES: Bootleggers vs. Police | Society Copes | Reform and Repeal"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1620 to 1820: New England's Great Secret

"GALLERIES: Drinking Implements | Taverns, People, and Scenes | Influential and Interesting Documents"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1919 to 1934: The Nation Follows Maine Into Prohibition

"… were exerting themselves to the utmost to prevent the sale of liquor." GALLERIES: Bootleggers vs. Police | Society Copes | Reform and Repeal"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1865 to 1919: The Drys Gain New Adherents and Leaders

"GALLERIES: Politics and Enforcement | Women Leaders and Temperance | Quenching the Thirst | Business as Usual"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Women Leaders and Temperance

"GALLERIES: Politics and Enforcement | Women Leaders and Temperance | Quenching the Thirst | Business as Usual"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Drinking: Elegance and Debauchery

"Daniel J. Libby Photography by J. David Bohl GALLERIES: A Call to Temperance | Temperance Membership | Neal Dow | Drinking: Elegance and…"

State of Mind: Becoming Maine

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?

Chinese in Maine

In 1857, when Daniel Cough left Amoy Island, China, as a stowaway on a sailing ship from Mt. Desert Island he was on his way into history as the first Chinese person to make his home in Maine. He was soon followed by a cigar maker and a tea merchant who settled in Portland and then by many more Chinese men who spread all over Maine working mostly as laundrymen.

A City Awakes: Arts and Artisans of Early 19th Century Portland

Portland's growth from 1786 to 1860 spawned a unique social and cultural environment and fostered artistic opportunity and creative expression in a broad range of the arts, which flowered with the increasing wealth and opportunity in the city.