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Presque Isle: The Star City - Farm Life

"The teacher was a good friend of her mother, my great grandmother. Her middle name is from her aunt, my great great aunt."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Elmer Ellsworth Martin, Bangor, 1865

"… fever, is shown at age 4 at top telling his mother, Clara Cary Martin (1836-1902), stories; climbing a tree at center, and showing his father, John…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin Sr. home, Ellsworth, 1823

"… Martin visited Ellsworth as an adult, with his mother, and re-created the home that she lost after her husband died."

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Blue Hill, Maine - Jonathan Fisher: Unlocking the Person Beyond the Parson

"… serving in the Revolutionary War, leaving his mother as the sole support of the family. Although she was a talented weaver and skillful homemaker…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahoc County Courthouse

"… special mention because George's letters to his mother still exist. These letters give detailed description of activities, places, and people in…"

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Wilson Museum

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Andrew Anderson

"It pays to have a mother in the house. Latchkey kids didn’t exist. But then when the war came along she was a nurse."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… Sam Savage McGee inherited the Old Ell from his mother Marcia in 2003 and continued to rent the Old Ell out seasonally as his mother had done."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 2 of 4

"She remembers that her mother would always have a pot of hot cocoa ready when they came in. Glenna had to wear long skirts or dresses to school…"

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Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 2 of 2

"… dressed and artistically posed around their mother, Anna Margaret Holwell Deering. The daughter of Major John Z."

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Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy

"Although Mother McAuley lived only 10 years after becoming a Sister, she opened fourteen other missions and oversaw 100 women take vows."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"When the kids were born there wasn’t much of my mother working. She stayed home and worked around the house."

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Mercy Hospital - Founding of Mercy

"Following in the footsteps of Mother McAuley, Miss Marion Weeks, the daughter of a distinguished surgeon in town, donated a portion of her property…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3

"1880Strong Historical Society Fly Rod's mother was a Porter, and through her she was connected to some of the earliest settlers in Strong."

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Landeen Family History

"After a couple of years her mother remarried to Mr. Lund. When Annie got married to Hjelmer Landeen she was 18 and he was 28."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 3 of 4

"I remember my mother telling me about the early days of aviation when it was quite common for planes to take off and land on the beaches."

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Mercy Hospital - McAuley Residence

"… McAuley Residence model draws on the example of Mother Catherine McAuley herself, who used her considerable resources to assist homeless women…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 3 of 6

"… and young Charles, together with his vivacious mother and later his outgoing wife Katharine Larchar Savage (1905- 2001), was at the center of the…"

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Dixfield Historical Society

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"… remember wearing coats and snowsuits their mothers made from the salvaged wool, which was tan or gray on one side and checked on the other."

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Lincoln, Maine - Solomon's Store

"… run out the door and all the way home to show my mother.   Dalton Neal Interview on prices at Solomon's Part 2 of 2   Dalton Neal Interview…"

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Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"During her lifetime, Mother McAuley insisted that although “the spirit of prayer and retreat must be most dear to us,” that spirit “would never…"

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Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"… Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away, 2006, Viking, New York. Daniel, G."

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Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"He kissed his mother, left the house, and got in the car. He started driving down the road to New York."