Maine Memory Network

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Friendship Museum

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Bob's Bears

"Where this mini-menagerie arrived from I never found out, but as it was Bangor fair time I thought they might have been part of the festivities at…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 2 of 3

"… of the next year more than half of all able-bodied men were in the armed services, and at the end of the war 1,000 men had gone off to fight."

Lincoln, Maine - Post Office

"He drowned in the Mattawamkeag River. The body was found in Babcock’s Boom in what now is called Winn."

Lincoln, Maine - Ferries

"Bridges now allow us to go over bodies of water that we would never be able to cross before. The bridge that crosses over the river from Lincoln to…"

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Woodbury

"… and went to New York where he died and his body was then moved to Sutton, Massachusetts. Founding Father, Aaron Woodbury by Christine Carmody X…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"After a period of busy growth, industry, and prosperity, the change shook the island. Swan’s Island’s final steam boat, the North Haven, was…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… the use and enjoyment of the great unorganized body of the common people some fine parts, at least, of this sea-side wilderness of Maine?” --…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"Mrs. Lermond was washed overboard and her body floated to Camp Ellis. For years, lobster fishermen knew that area of Stratton Island as the old wreck."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …next came the artists and rusticators.

"… that the “cool waters of Eden” might invigorate body and soul, vacationers, referred to as rusticators, soon followed the artists. Frederic E."

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

"… Dutch cinematographer, slipped and fell from a cliff to his death at Schooner Head. His body was washed out to sea. Sources and Works Cited..."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - A Murder In Strong

"Suspicion fell upon a Canadian hired-hand named Lawrence Doyle, who lived and worked on the Libby farm. He said that he had spent most of the…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"… to the Western Plains to recover his son’s body, but the body was never found. James's parents are buried in Strong, and an inscription…"

Historic Hallowell - Earning Our Keep

"… manage to get along? The challenges of keeping body and soul together, of feeding the family and livestock and providing shelter are shared by all…"

Historic Hallowell - Schooners, Steamers, Ships and Tankers

"… ocean trips to coastal runs and on large inland bodies of water. Steamer, Lizzie M. Snow, Kennebec River, Hallowell, ca."

Historic Hallowell - The Tiger and the Lion

"The Tiger had a team of forty people who pumped water into the hose and onto the fire. Some of the people sat on the hose as they went to the fire, a…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Explore photos from the "Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold" documentary

"Then, they removed the graveyard. Seventeen bodies were dug up, placed in five caskets, then shipped by train to the Maine School for the…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"… three villages were established thanks to three bodies of water that run through New Portland. Lemon Stream is found in the West, the Carrabassett…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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