Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Summary: The Future: Recycle or Start from Scratch?

"… we exist in an era of mass production and global sources of readily available building materials."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods Citations

"… Flood Observatory, published July 2003, 1987 Global Register of Extreme Flood Events, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~floods/Archives/1987sum.htm Diana…"

Maine Maritime Museum

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Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library

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Historic Hallowell - Whaling

"This caused the beginning of the global anti-whaling movement in the 1970’s. The United Nations Conference of the Human Environment at Stockholm…"

Historic Hallowell - Commerce on the Kennebec Citations

"… Flood Observatory, published July 2003, 1987 Global Register of Extreme Flood Events, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~floods/Archives/1987sum.htm Diana…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Maps

"… GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and GPS (Global Positioning Systems) software. Members of the project conducted fieldwork where they went…"

Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy

"… both to the Catholic Church and to the greater global community served by the Sisters, Pope John Paul II conferred the honorific “Venerable” to…"

Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"The global Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 killed between 50 and 100 million people worldwide, far more than the 21 million killed in the much more…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"The lumbering business made Bangor into a global provider for timber. Bangor, a small town on a tidal river, was once famous as the Lumber Capital of…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"… 2001, and our country going to war in 2003, the global economy slowed considerably and the effects were felt at Interface."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"TheYounger Dryas is a period of global or northern hemisphere intense cold, dating between 12, 300 and 11,300 calendar years ago. 3. Pollock et. al."

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"… world remains in conflict in all corners and the global economy is as scary as it’s ever been, Guilford will survive."

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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