Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s

"… Wabanakis now marketed their traditional arts, crafts, and canoeing skills to rusticators who visited their tented encampments."

Historic Hallowell - Our Work and Our Team

"… Museum Cyndy Raymond - 7th Grade English/Language Arts Teacher – HallDale Middle School – RSU2 Sam Webber – Hallowell City Historian, retired…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"Additionally there was a huge and thriving arts scene in the area, in no small part due to the many talented French-Canadians who had moved here."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 1 of 4

"… Story of Blue Hill Resourceful People, Creative Arts, and Devotion to Community By members of the Blue Hill Historical Society, Blue Hill Public…"

John Bapst Memorial High School

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Jonathan Fisher Memorial

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Poland Spring Preservation Society

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Franco-American Heritage Center at St. Mary's

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Franco-American Collection

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L.C. Bates Museum/Good Will-Hinckley

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Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 2 of 2

"… the Sky: Wabanaki people, culture, history, and art (2019), Designing Acadia (2017), World War I and the Maine Experience (2017), Fashionable…"

Dyer Library/Saco Museum

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - About Us

"… College of the Atlantic enriches the liberal arts tradition through a distinctive educational philosophy — human ecology."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"… as well as serious training in the “fine art of paddling.” Most members this rusticators’ club aspired to having their own Indian-made paddle and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 3 of 3

"… island villages, like Somesville, with only an art gallery and a convenience store? Or will it descend to resemble the ghost villages of Sound and…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell History From a 7th Grade Perspective

"Raymond's language arts class. The search for pictures that would relate to their topic came next. The primary source images had to be searched and…"

Guilford, Maine - MANUFACTURING - Page 1 of 2

"Prides built a state-of-the-art saw mill which was electronically automated and moved from the flood plains of Guilford to Burnham, which is about 25…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"… were to be "instructed and employed in any lawful art, trade or mystery, or as servants to be employed in any lawful work or labour..." Male…"

Northeast Historic Film

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Kennebunkport Historical Society

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School

"… and kindergarten would be enlarged, a new art and music room added, and an all new kitchen and cafeteria."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"The two smaller art pieces rest higher, partially obscured by the semi-circular bunting. Centennial headquarters, Lubec, 1911 Lubec Historical…"

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… of the Star, the Criterion boasted a luxurious art deco design, rich with velvet drapery, silk panels, and elaborate glass chandeliers."