Maine Memory Network

Harold's Garage, Rome Hollow, Maine
by Mimi C

Story about Harold Hawes, owner of Harold's garage and self-styled auctioneer in Rome Hollow, Maine

Peter Spanos fled the genocide in Turkey to Maine
by anonymous

Peter Spanos fled the Greek genocide in Smyrna in 1922, coming to Maine to work as a fruit peddler

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

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

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

A story about my father and our family.

Aroostook Potato Harvest: Perspective of a Six Year Old
by Phyllis A. Blackstone

A child's memory of potato harvest in the 1950s

A Lifelong Romance with Retail
by George A Smith

Maine's once plentiful small retail stores.

A Story in a Stick
by Jim Moulton

A story about dowsing for a well in Bowdoin

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.

Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey

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

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