Maine Memory Network

Portland in the 1940s
by Carol Norton Hall

As a young woman in Portland during WWII, the presence of servicemen was life changing.

If You Knew My Story
by Anonymous (Maine State Prison)

A story about incarceration in Maine

A Lifelong Romance with Retail
by George A Smith

Maine's once plentiful small retail stores.

My father's world - the old farm in Richmond, Maine
by Donald C. Cunningham

A story about my father and our family.

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.

My Story of Trauma
by Anonymous (Maine Correction Center)

The process of being incarcerated is traumatic. This is my story.

The Wall
by Michael Uhl

What it means to have beaten the odds

Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey

Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics