Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 1 of 3

"My other job I worked was as a dairy boy. I would go to work at four in the morning for the dairy farm."

Winter Harbor Historical Society

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Historic Clothing Collection - Northern Threads: Two centuries of dress at Maine Historical Society - Page 3 of 3

"A virtual tour is hosted on this site. Parts I and II each feature a signature garment, meant to represent an iconic fashion trend from their…"

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

"“When I first heard about the terrible drownings I felt sick. I feel badly for all the people who lost their lives. I wanted to know more."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Gravenstein apple, Bangor, 1866

"… fruit grew it would have bent to the ground but I took a brush pole I had shoved & tied it up as drawn." Martin wrote "this tree Duchese…"

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

"… to it for I cannot write any better not now and I think I never can learn to do any better. Civil War boots, ca."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The MCHP Experience: In Our Own Words

"I was so excited to see the students working so hard to get everything perfect. They were so cautious in making sure they handled the artifacts…"

Rumford Area Historical Society

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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's cart, Hampden, ca. 1833

"… 73 of the journal, he wrote, "During this summer I became a quite a mechanic I made me a cart with hub and spoke wheels and the idea started from…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - First electric railroad car in Bangor, 1889

"… from day break until 12 midnight of the sights I have seen I count this as one of the finest, to see a car literally packed as they were all day &…"

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

"Of course, I didn’t see the parade because I was riding on the Peacock float. The women decorated the floats and ours was beautiful."

Historic Hallowell - Cyclone Poems

"… and Fixing the City by Gabby Horse A stable maybe I am stuck and it is tight Help has come for me Boy In a dark tight space A faint light appears…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Tilson's Hat

"I love my schooling, but I love my country more. I will leave tomorrow.” “Henry, I am going to miss you."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Andrew Anderson

"We moved- I forget which year. I guess in the fourth grade- We moved to the city and that was really eye-opening."

Peru Historical Society

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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin store, Center Street, Bangor, 1862

"… instrument was a pencil and for the fun of it I gave him 10 cents a piece to draw my house & store and I have both coppies before me now." The…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Dr. Charles Snell, Bangor, ca. 1867

"… drew this sketch of the son "to show how near I can draw or represent when I undertake it in good earnest." Martin, an accountant and shopkeeper…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Bob's Bears

"Where this mini-menagerie arrived from I never found out, but as it was Bangor fair time I thought they might have been part of the festivities at…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Civil War

"I don’t want to go to any other town, nor I don’t want to suffer too much… It is the hardest times that ever I see.” The population of Mount Desert…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - First balloon ascension, Bangor, 1857

"… the clouds, I now had the reality before me and I made a vow that from that day out I would never dispute any science projected by man untill it…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 3 of 4

"… been in the field I never yet saw the time that I was not proud to say I am A maine man, and well might I be for never has A maine Regt."

Westport Island History Committee

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - U.S. Flagship Hartford

"I am on The Gunboat Kennebec currently off the coast of Mississippi. We set sail from Thomaston, Maine on October 5th."

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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