Maine Memory Network

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

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

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

West Point during World War II

Black Is Beautiful
by Judi Jones

Gut-wrenching fear

John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne

Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.

A poem about my experiences in Vietnam
by Doug Rawlings

A poem about my experiences in Vietnam

The Wall
by Michael Uhl

What it means to have beaten the odds

The Oakfield Inn
by Rodney Duplisea

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

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