Maine Memory Network

Friends of Wood Island Light

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Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ

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Architecture & Landscape database - Project Background and Partners

"… CWS Architects, East Brown Cow, The Knickerbocker Group, and Simons Architects, MHS converted the Microsoft access database to an online MMN…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Welcome and Introduction

"… been a work in progress since 2006, when a first group of high school students, historical organizations, and individuals undertook a pilot project…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Original Mount Desert Island Pilot Project (2006)

"… societies, libraries, and/or other community groups to work closely together and with staff from the Maine Historical Society to create websites…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More Permanent Settlers Arrive

"The second major group of settlers came from Eastham, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Included were Amariah Leland and his sons Ezra and Ebenezer, David…"

Historic Hallowell - The Stevens Training Center Serenaders

"The Serenaders. a group of seventeen girls, along with the school Superintendent Dr. Pauline I. McCready, also the Conductor-Accompanist, ventured…"

Historic Hallowell - “Maine’s Century” Ends

"… with other municipalities and environmental groups to promote the continued revitalization of the Kennebec through the Kennebec River Initiative…"

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."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm In Hallowell

"Large groups of families, were coming together to help each other survive the harsh, cold weather. Oh what a sight."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - About Us

"About Us The New Portland MCHP group consisted of partners from MSAD #74, the New Portland Community Library, and the New Portland Historical…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - About Us

"… class (fifteen total) were divided into five groups (one group for each exhibit topic) and assigned an exhibit topic."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Mark and Emily Turner Memorial Library

"The group organizing the library was the called Half and Half Club. Later the Carnegie Foundation donated 10,000 dollars toward creating a library…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - General Henry Knox Museum

"… from 10am – 3:30pm Closed Sunday and Monday Group tours are also available by appointment in April, May, October and November Programs at the Knox…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Civil War

"… to essential questions on research techniques, a group reflection on the project, and grammar/mechanics."

Life on a Tidal River - Cohen Students

"… One day each week students were divided into four groups: one scanning artifacts with Bill Cook, Bangor Public Library Special Collections…"

Life on a Tidal River - Work on the Civil War Project

"… One day each week students were divided into four groups: one scanning artifacts with Bill Cook, Bangor Public Library Special Collections…"

Hollingsworth Fine Arts

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Guilford Historical Society

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

"… 1978Swan's Island Historical Society A mainland group provided the donkeys and a few umpires. Island teams were formed to ride the donkeys."

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

"… Society In the 1990s the island theater group, the Hockamock Players, put on theater productions."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Dancing Fraternity, City of Bangor, 1868

"… waltz surpassed older dances like contra or group dances in popularity. One historian called the period from 1812 to 1912 the "Waltz Century." The…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 195-277

"… with Martin's observation about the Millerites, a group that set a date for Christ's second coming, and their encampment in Orrington."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Millerite camp meeting, Orrington, 1844

"… Description The Millerites, a religious group who believed that Jesus would reappear on earth between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844, held a…"