Maine Memory Network

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."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Boy at Bangor post Civil War parade, 1865

"This boy is one of the age 11-14 group who "were uniformed in Zouave, red, picken red caps, white waists, red cambrick pants white cotton stockings…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 1 of 6

"… century, these records reveal what different groups from various backgrounds and cultures understood this region to be, what they wanted it to…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 1 of 5

"… French, Acadian, British, and US individuals and groups over several centuries. Just as the large manuscript collections of the Kennebec and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Plymouth Company (Kennebec Proprietors) records, ca. 1625-1824

"… in 1749, and was one of several proprietor groups operating in the District of Maine before and after the American Revolution."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"This group of wealthy, well connected merchants organized as “The Proprietors of the Kennebeck Purchase from the late Colony of New-Plymouth,” The…"

Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"… Manola Gilman of Cumberland Mills noted “you boys are about as safe in France now tho [sic] as the people are around here."

Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"The Superintendent of the Boys Training Center in South Portland wrote Sister Annunciata to say “thank you for permitting the Singing Nuns from the…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"… to the curriculum and organized intramural boys’ and girls’ sports teams. Strong's first baseball team won their first nine games without a coach…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Junior Martin in cadet uniform, Bangor, ca. 1871

"(1857-1929) was one of a group of boys in the Select School in Bangor and a few from the grammar school who formed a cadet company and began in…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Resources

"… Pinkham, Down East Books, 2009 Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine, Thomas Desjardin, Oxford University Press, 1995 Civil War Regiments from Maine…"

Skowhegan Community History - Early Settlement in Skowhegan

"One group of people claimed part of this new land. The group was made up of five people: Eli Weston, age 12; Isaac Smith, age 15; Joseph Weston…"

St. Croix Historical Society

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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Historic Hallowell - Initiative and Self-Improvement

"In 1822, a group of young men in Hallowell, anxious to improve their minds, organized the Franklin Debating Society."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Sports

"… the 1950s were all about the Brooklyn Dodger's "boys of summer" the late 1970s and early 1980s on Swan's Island were the "golden years" for the…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Elusive Championship

"… came to Hampden in 2004, where he met a group of boys that would have the will to win a state championship! The 2005 team consisted of Evan Farley…"

Historic Hallowell - A Chosen Place ~ Once Again

"… is still bringing forth children, educating the boys and girls for weal or woe; she will still send them forth to every mountain, plain and sea…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"MDI boys’ high school teams were now competing with town schools throughout Hancock County, and every home game was well attended."

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."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Church on the Hill

"… out with crinoline petty coats underneath; the boys looked polished in their new ties, pants, and shiny shoes."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"The older boys in almost every family went to sea as ordinary seamen and many of them died at sea. The heyday of American shipping was from 1815 to…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… summers in the region since Charles was a young boy. The place was important to him, and he wanted to share the experience with his classmates."

Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"The Cohen Group is a business in Washington, D. C. that helps American businesses in foreign markets."