Maine Memory Network

Stripped Of More Than Clothing
by Dan Adams

Juvenile strip searches while incarcerated.

Ever-Changing Rules
by anonymous

A former prison volunteer describes their experience running a program on the inside.

My life as a revolutionary knitter
by Katharine Cobey

Moving to Maine and confronting knitting stereotypes

The Oakfield Inn
by Rodney Duplisea

This is a summarized article about the opening of the Oakfield Inn. It appeared in the Bangor Daily

The System Doesn't Care about Rehabilitation
by Robert Fogg

Robert describes periods of incarceration from a young age to the present.

My Thomaston
by Jessa

My experience growing up in Thomaston.

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

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

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

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

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

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