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My Maine Stories
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Classroom Time Capsule
by Anna Bennett
On March 12, 2020, I left my classroom not knowing I wouldn't return again for months.
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What Maine Means to Me
by Nicolette B. Meister
How a friendship created a lifelong love of Maine.
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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.
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Hooch Mum and my Vietnam service
by Jim Barrows
A poem about being a medic, saving Vietnamese people and babies. Sometimes we trusted too much.
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Senator Susan Deschambault: not afraid to take on challenges
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center Voices of Biddeford project
Honoring her family's small business roots and community service through her own unconventional path
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A Note from a Maine-American
by William Dow Turner
With 7 generations before statehood, and 5 generations since, Maine DNA carries on.
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Stripped Of More Than Clothing
by Dan Adams
Juvenile strip searches while incarcerated.
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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
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John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
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Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall
Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.
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How the first chapter Veterans for Peace was founded in Maine
by Doug Rawlings
Veterans for Peace was founded in Maine and is now an international movement
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An Asian American Account
by Zabrina
An account from a Chinese American teen during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
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History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars