Maine Memory Network

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

"… Peacock’s bought my dress and my shoes and had my hair done. They paid for all that, and the bouquet – a dozen red roses."

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

"… who “managed to grasp Miriam Kelley...by the hair just as she was going under. The Kelley girl was eventually carried to shore by Miss Stella M."

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

"… lucky that Wyman Ramsdell grabbed Kelley by the hair of her head to stop her from drowning. Kelley said, ‘I just wanted to lay down and go to…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 1 of 4

"… in the late 1950s to early 1960s, the custom of girls and young women dressing or wearing hair and make-up like their mothers, faded away."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"… I was a boy – and I always had quills stuck in my hair. And he was a birchbark craftsman. He used to do a big business with birchbark frames."

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"… was made of hydrated lime, sand, water, and horse hair. The slate was made of clay or volcanic ash. Slate, a rock formed from shale and mined by…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4

"They came to town with long hair and a different background than the town's first settlers, but like those settlers they were looking for a place…"

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"The brown haired 15 year old came down the stairs in his nightgown. “What’s for breakfast today Ma’am?” Keith asked."

Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"… watch the Sisters swimming then report what color hair they had or what color bathing suit they wore.” Upon its founding, Mercy Hospital…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Otisfield Historical Society

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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