Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - World War I

"The monument is of a “dough boy”. A dough boy is a specially trained soldier who is able to fight one on one with the enemy."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"… sell: “My dad used to do quillwork when I was a boy – and I always had quills stuck in my hair. And he was a birchbark craftsman."

Historic Hallowell - Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer

"As a boy he worked for Major John Quincy Adams Hawes, a retired Army surgeon who operated a pharmacy in downtown Hallowell."

Historic Hallowell - The Cyclone of 1895

"A young boy named Virgil White was caught in the cyclone and badly injured. Both of his legs were broken as well as his right ankle and collar bone."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village Schools

"… school registers 25 students (seventeen boys and eight girls) were listed. Grade 4 had seven students. Grade 5 had nine students."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Bob's Bears

"Well, boys and girls, every year on a warm summer's afternoon, at about the time of the Bangor Fair, I think of a happening from my early days on…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Ocean View Hotel

"… on the settees and that was fine, but not me, boy—music, I right up and at ‘em! I remember—we used to go in there and have pie and ice cream."

Early Maine Photography - Family Groups

"Two boys stand behind them and a third sits in front of his father. O.R. Patch family, Bangor, ca."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"It employed more than 700 men, women, and boys. The printing department alone employed more than 100 employees."

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"Schmidt, Gary, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, 2006, Random House, New York. Shipler, David K., A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in…"

Bangor Public Library

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - New Sweden Athletic Club

"… on they did not just have ski teams but hockey, boys and girls basketball, gymnastic and track teams."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"That was a sad day for us boys because you used to hitch your sleds to the ice wagons when they made the run up the hill empty, you know, after they…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood

"All of the boys in the family had that same tendency to the creative and the mechanical. Chester did indeed patent Ear Muffs when he was 15 years old."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Jacob Abbott

"… November 14th, 1803, Jacob was the oldest of five boys in his family, all of whom attended Hallowell Academy."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - East New Portland Village Schools

"… school was built around 1875 and had a woodshed, boys and girls outhouse and an entryway. The Parsons School closed in June of 1943 and reverted to…"

Lubec, Maine - The Blizzard of '34 - Page 1 of 2

"… shovel the streets.” On Tuesday 40 high school boys assisted 100 men. Blizzard, Lubec, January 1934 Lubec Historical Society Every street in…"

Blue Hill, Maine - John Edward Horton, Civil War Soldier

"Their only child was a boy named Orrin Horton who was born on June 20, 1863 in Somerville, MA. Orrin grew up in Blue Hill and became a builder."

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

"A young boy's indenturePrince Memorial Library Apprentices and Servants The Overseers were empowered to bind out, or place into apprenticeship, the…"

McArthur Public Library

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Surry by the Bay - Surry Village School

"He knocked the boy out. Both parents and other students responded positively to this action. Surry Village School recess, Surry, ca."

Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"… he assisted in running a school for war refugee boys from Great Britain and Europe. Gridley Barrows served in the Pacific during World War II…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"Stevens rose within seven years from office boy to become Fassett’s junior partner in 1880. That year the young architect opened a branch office of…"

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… Centennial, by Lee Sanford, a former Guilford boy who had played in the President's band for a number of years."