Maine Memory Network

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"… metal bucket and onion bags), clam digging is hard, backbreaking work with hours dependent on tides and light."

Abbe Museum

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School

"He commended the hard work of those who helped make the new school a reality. "The town can now continue educating it's children at home and have a…"

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

"… kid, a lover of basketball, a boy who worked hard to get good grades. Where according to Secretary Cohen,"He was a pretty good student." Not only…"

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas S. Libby

"But in the olden days I think he had a hard time living the way they did. These are my feelings about Thomas S. Libby."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"General Crosby worked hard to have the county seat changed from Castine to Hampden, but he proved unsuccessful in that venture as well."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"But when we got on to the field, sights that will hardly bear description met our eyes. Turn which way we would, nearly a dozen grim corpses lay…"

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

"X Stephen Titcomb’s tale is one of hard work and determination. His dedication, along with other notable early settlers, resulted in the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"… declining wealthy summer colony there while hardly touching the Western side of the island, including Northeast Harbor and the hamlet of Asticou…"

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"The Vaughan Stream was hard to navigate because of its small size. But one way that people used the Vaughan Stream was for power."

Lincoln, Maine - Jeremy Nelson

"He probably had to work hard at teaching the teenagers that attended the school. This was because they weren’t used to school because they grew up…"

Lincoln, Maine - Post Office

"Harold Harding Interview on Post Offices Andrew Rideout "Create a statement and prove/disprove it with research" Statement: Lincoln always had its…"

Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 2 of 3

"We washed all the floors…We did work hard. It was just normal. I mean, we expected it.” Connolly and her classmates appear to have received a…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection

"On the advice of his friend President Warren G. Harding, Hale hired a new manager, and reorganized the entire layout of the paper, much to the dismay…"

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"… entertainment and community, the culmination of hard work and training, the beginning of school. It is an opportunity for well over 40,000 people…"

Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"Life without fast communication would be hard also. If there’s something bad about to happen people need to know immediately to spread word of needed…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"Women's lives were hard and they often died young. Men frequently died at sea, and often children did not survive to adulthood."

Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"The island, through many changes, sometimes hard and bad, still has come to be proven as a beautiful place to visit in the town of Skowhegan."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… location proved to be vitally important to these hard working early inhabitants. The meadows provided grazing area for livestock, the soil was…"

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Historical Society - Page 1 of 2

"Memories like the ones that are made here are too hard to find for them to just be destroyed. The Lincoln Historical Society does a lot for Lincoln…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

"They worked hard to make it happen. The residents of Walnut Hill built the “Great Schoolhouse” (c. 1780 ) near the Walnut Hill Cemetery on Route 115…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"Although children worked hard, helping to feed the animals, bale the hay and weed the gardens, they were well-educated."

Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"… offering much appreciated distraction from hard times, it was the country’s entry into World War II that eventually forced the theater to close in…"

Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"… in the military in crowded encampments were also hard hit. Of the 1,032 Mainers who died during the war, over half died of the flu."