Maine Memory Network

Early Maine Photography - The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection

"Shettleworth, Jr. to take him on day trips to antique and book shops throughout Eastern Maine and the coast."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - IV. Engulfed by nationalism: Revolutionary Biddeford

"… cutting an estimated 50,000 feet of boards every day. Most of these products were sold in Boston, Providence and New York City."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"… village is thought to be Sowocatuck, where modern day downtown Biddeford and Saco now stand, in the areas around the great falls."

Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"… of a Grand Parade at 1:30 on Independence Day, “to be formed at junction of School, Main and Church Sts.” according to the official program."

Winter Harbor Historical Society

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"in Bangor, which became very successful. One day the Brady Gang came into his store and tried to purchase an illegal gun."

Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 2 of 2

"… using gas sterilized 1,000 thermometers per day (before the advent of disposable covers). Mercy also boasted a newly rebuilt and re-equipped…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… by auto scows, both suddenly obsolete the day the new bridge opened on August 13, 1962. Ferry, Lubec Narrows, ca."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Andrew Anderson

"… a meat inspector she worked with hot dogs and one day she asked me if I wanted to see how hot dogs are made. And I said yes..."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: The Old Church on the Hill

"… and covered by James Stackpole, taking three days and drawing a large crowd of spectators and assistants from the community."

Life on a Tidal River - The War Effort

"… food with the soldiers, shopping earlier in the day and week, making lists and adding up points before going to the store, planning means, doing…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"… exempt from sickness or disease during its early days. In 2010 the Dixfield Historical Society acquired over thirty diaries from the former Nelson…"

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

"Seldom have pleasanter days been spent than those recalled while writing out this sketch. We have coasted in good company and under good pilotage…"

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"In early days a vessel beset fired a cannon, thus requesting the West Quoddy keeper for similar acknowledgment. Soon a bell replaced the cannon."

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

"… Island Historical Society They spent their days sailing and rowing across Somes Sound and around the islands, swimming in Lower Hadlock Pond…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"Have you heard of the big fire On April thirtieth day Down in Bangor city Not many miles away? (Young 1) Fairbanks Building on fire, Bangor…"

Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy

"… arrived in Bangor, Maine where they opened a school that later became Saint John School. In 1873, Bishop David Bacon invited them to Portland to…"

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… independent college preparatory boarding and day school for boys and girls in grades six through high school."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Doughty School; and Priscilla Soucie, School Library Media Specialist, William S. Cohen School Howard House, Bangor, 1869Bangor Public Library…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"2017. "Temperance movement." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 7 May. 2017…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"… roof and had a capacity of 350 tons of paper a day. The Rumford Falls Power Co.'s ability to generate adequate power for the paper manufacture and…"