Maine Memory Network

L.C. Bates Museum/Good Will-Hinckley

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"… balanced US and British interests with each side willing to reconsider past sticking points that could have led to a third Anglo-American war."

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…"

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas G. Libby

"He decided to fight along side grown men, as well as his father, Thomas S. Libby, in the Civil War. This proves he is brave because not many boys…"

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…"

Guilford, Maine - SPORTS - Page 3 of 3

"… the program was really going, they got pretty good, so good that in 1983 they won the Eastern Maine Championship, and went onto the state game…"

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."

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 1 of 4

"I will give you The bill of Fare Roast Turkey (captured while on Picket) Sweet Potatoes (bought at the moderate Price of 3 cts apeace) Oysters (Raw…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"Waterman Company of Bangor, where boys of all ages were invited to compete in 100 yard dashes. On the Fourth of July, patrons were enticed with the…"

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"… down the road, in the year 1931, there was a boy named Keith. He lived on a fox farm. “Keith come down and eat your breakfast!” Keith’s mom…"

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

"Where according to Secretary Cohen,"He was a pretty good student." Not only was he a good athlete, but he also officiated at intramural games and was…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"Another boy traveled with them and drove their three cows. They had just reached the last home in Readfield, belonging to Constant Norton, when a…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"… shake your light and dainty feet O, you can do it boy! Right well we know you can Let each horse that steps with you then see the glitter of your…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"This was the only course offered specifically for boys. In fact, the Academy was the first in Hancock County to allow girls to attend."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… five dollars a month when he was just a young boy. He would rough out the roads in the woods. While doing this, he noticed sap on a fallen spruce."

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…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… over Little Blue, and opened it as a school for boys in 1844. The property was purchased by A. H. Abbott (not related) after Samuel P."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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