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My Maine Stories
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Rug Hooking Project with a Story
by Marilyn Weymouth Seguin
My grandmother taught me the Maine craft of rug hooking when I was a child.
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Laura Richter - Educator
by MLTI Stories of Impact Project
Laura Richter was a Middle School Educator in Skowhegan, Maine as the MLTI began in 2002.
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My Journey: Training Service Dogs in Prison
by Anonymous (Maine State Prison)
Inmates at Maine State Prison train dogs as service and companion animals. This is one story.
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Warming Oceans
by David Reidmiller, Gulf of Maine Research Institute
The rate of warming in the Gulf of Maine is faster than that of more than 95% of the world’s oceans
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Cantor Beth & Dr David Strassler: personal insights on life
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
The journey of a couple devoted to each other, their family, their community and their religion
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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
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Spiros Droggitis: From Biddeford to Washington DC and back
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
A Greek family's impact: from the iconic Wonderbar Restaurant to Washington DC
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My Years of Coaching and Lessons Learned
by Bob Brown
How growing up and coaching in Maine, and around the world, made me who I am today.
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Aurore Morin & Huguette Paquette: immigrating to Biddeford
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
The experience of a young mother and her teenage sister making the transition from Quebec to Maine.
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Minik Wallace 1891-1918
by Genevieve LeMoine, The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum
The life of Minik, an Inuit person from Greenland who grew up in New York City.
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Love is greater than peace, For peace is founded upon love
by Parivash Rohani
My journey from Iran to Maine
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Blessing of the Creatures MAINEUSA
by Marty Pottenger
Passamaquoddy "Blessing of the Creatures'' honors the creatures of Maine.
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Hand carrying water in Marshfield
by Dorothy Gardner
Ways of getting water in rural Maine. From fetching water from a stream to having a well.
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Welcome home Sgt. Cunningham
by Donald C Cunningham
It was great to be back in Maine.
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The Equal Freedom to Marry
by Mary L Bonauto
Marriage Equality, Maine, and the U.S. Supreme Court
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Anti-immigrant violence
by Matthew Jude Barker
Prejudice in Maine against immigrants dates back to at least the mid-1700s
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Beef Cutlet always reminds me of home in Iran
by Parivash Rohani
Making beef cutlet in Maine connects me to my home in Iran and my Baha'i faith.
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Isolation!
by Leslie
Having only moved to Maine alone 8 months prior, had to freeze my life
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We Are An Ordinary Family
by Catherine
Maine's abolitionists offer an answer to my questions about my family's experiences.
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Backup Captain
by Shannon & Asa Richards
Our family’s deep connections to the maritime and fishing communities
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The Right Place At The Right Time
by Joe & Nellie Kennedy
A musical history of Joe and Nellie Kennedy
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Passamaquoddy Maple, reaching back to our ancestral roots
by Marie Harnois
Tribally owned Passamaquoddy Maple is an economic and cultural heritage opportunity
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Kim's famous homemade potato donuts
by Kim Smith
Sharing my potato donut memories and recipe
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Becoming Master snowshoe makers
by Edmond and Brian J. Theriault
Making snowshoes has taken us from novices to world-class craftsmen over 40 years time.