Maine Memory Network

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.

Aroostook Potato Harvest: Perspective of a Six Year Old
by Phyllis A. Blackstone

A child's memory of potato harvest in the 1950s

Learning to fly and instructing cadets at West Point during WWII
by Vera Cleaves

West Point during World War II

Sister Therese Bouthot:Life of service as a Good Shepherd sister
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

From humble beginnings to playing a leadership role in the service of others

A Smart Horse
by Lynn Peasley Sanborn

The horse brings the hay home while the boys are swimming.

Alan Casavant-providing leadership during a city's Renaissance
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center Voices of Biddeford project

Evolution of Biddeford's identity through the eyes of a teacher, community servant, and mayor.

Growing up DownEast
by Darrin MC Mclellan

Stories of growing up Downeast

Tracers
by anonymous

tracers, bonding, and fixations

Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler

How hunting has impacted my life

Pandemic Chaplaincy
by Rev Judy L Braun

Reflections of a hospice Chaplains encounter with end of life during Coronavirus pandemic 2020-21

The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona

Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.

Florence Ahlquist Link's WWII service in the WAVES
by Earlene Ahlquist Chadbourne

Florence Ahlquist, age 20, was trained to repair the new aeronautical cameras by the US Navy in WWII

The Wall
by Michael Uhl

What it means to have beaten the odds

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars

My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne

Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima

Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR

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