Maine Memory Network

Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 2 of 2

"The boat flipped over. Miss Mimi Kelley who was saved by Wyman Ramsdell is the last living of the three children who survived."

Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 1 of 2

"Twelve Lubec school children drowned that day, June 19, 1936. A summer day, after school ended for the year, created for picnics and the usually…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 1 of 2

"… ample public feeds, a “living flag” by Lubec’s children, and a celebratory townwide parade past splendidly decorated commercial and residential…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Picnic, Fort Point Light, and Fort Pownal, 1865

"… Springs, and a picnic that he and his wife and children had. Members of the Third Parish Church in Bangor, joined by the First Parish, made the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

"… sat on separate sides and the younger smaller children sat towards the front of the room, with the older larger children in back."

Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"… Lead Mine Road, the oldest girl in a family of 12 children. In 1947, at the age of 16, she began working at the Union Sardine Factory owned by R.J."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 3 of 4

"In those days, a good memory characterized a good student. Eventually, slates and slate pencils were discarded and manufactured pencils and paper…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"If children only mildly misbehaved, doing things such as disrupting class or talking out of turn, there would be a few consequences."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 4 of 4

"Every day, children would go outside to recite the Pledge and the Lord's Prayer. In the 1920s, the Pledge of Allegiance was introduced, and in the…"

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

"… features of the day was a Living Flag with 225 children on a specially built stand on Monument Lot.” Click on the photo below and zoom in to see…"

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… Larrabee occupied the post from 1930 to 1939; his children and Johnson’s walked together to school. Starting under Larrabee in 1934, Howard “Bob”…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John and Clara Martin wedding hack, Bangor, 1850

"… on details of his life and activities so his children would know what Bangor, business, homes, and various activities were like during their…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 6, pages 97-113

"… Sockabasin Newel Hicola Horace Francis Martin children Capt. Daniel K. Pomroy "girls who bore a bad name" Liz Widow Clark Mary E."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Ladies Blush apple, Bangor, 1889

"… and in a few years ceased bearing and died, my children feasted on this tree all the days it bore." View additional information about this item on…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"That’s how we got our nickname.” Women and children were paid by the piece, up to $3 a day in the early years."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4

"Eleven of their twelve children died before reaching middle age. Dr. Robert Southgate, ca. 1830Scarborough Historical Society & Museum One of…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"Three of his children became major public figures. Rufus represented New York in the United States Senate; and as a senator, worked on the Missouri…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Bangor Quartette Club, 1849

"He wanted his wife and children to know more about him and how things worked and looked at the time he was growing up and was first in business."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Village Schools

"… at the old schoolhouse; the picnic on the last day, Arbor Day, and a Friday afternoon when the primaries and intermediate grades hung Maybaskets."

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

"… planned to open the door one-half hour before the children came. Sometimes I built a fire in a long stove, using odd pieces of discarded shovel…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 2 of 2

"They had six children, Ada (1851-1923), Annie (1855-1889), John Junior (1858-1929), Elmer (1860-1870), Frank, who died shortly after birth in 1862…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"Ezekiel and Eunice Hitchcock Porter had many children: Thurza, Jeremy, Eunice, Alexander, Elias, Augusta, Ezekiel, Sarah, and Catherine. Mr."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"His wife was Hannah Susup, and they had six children: Molly Pierpole, Molly Susup, Katie, Hannah Oppalunski, Iganoose, and Joseph Susup."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Schools

"It was common for children to start their first full time job at the factories around the age of seven, but some children as young as five years old…"