Maine Memory Network

What did I do during the Covid quarantine?
by Nasser Rohani from Baha'i Community

Individuals response to Covid and social distancing.

Pandemic Blues
by Darlene Reardon

Covid 19 Portland poem

Isolation!
by Leslie

Having only moved to Maine alone 8 months prior, had to freeze my life

Working as a telephone operator in the 1940s
by Doris Tardy

Working as a telephone operator in 1946 was new and exciting, and challenging.

2024 Maine History Maker Celebration Event
by Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society's 2024 Maine History Maker event, honoring Joan Benoit Samuelson.

Joan Benoit Samuelson: A Maine Story
by Maine Historical Society

Documentary about Joan Benoit Samuelson, created as part of the 2024 Maine History Maker award.

A Loon's World
by Norma Salway

Loons on Songo Pond

Memories of a mission in Vietnam, January 11, 1970
by SGT. Ronald Santerre, 1st Calvary Division

Extracting villagers from the Viet Cong in Vietnam

The Point
by Norma K. Salway

In the summer, on the eastern shore of Songo, kids dove from a leaning tree

The Joys of Kayaking - Pam's Story
by Pam Ferris-Olson

Pam has kayaked in many special places but her fondest memories are being made on Casco Bay

2020 Sheltering in Place Random Notes During COVID-19
by Phyllis Merriam, LCSW

Sheltering-in-Place personal experiences in mid-coast Maine (Rockland) during March and April 2020

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

Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey

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

Growing up DownEast
by Darrin MC Mclellan

Stories of growing up Downeast

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

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