Maine Memory Network

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"Bangor and the Temperance Movement The Temperance Movement was a social movement whose purpose was to ban the consumption and sale of alcoholic…"

Houlton Grange

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Oakfield Grange 414

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Maine Conservation Corps

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The Cedars

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Tate House Museum

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Mercy Hospital - Portland Hospitals Before Mercy

"Items courtesy of Maine Memory and Maine Medical Center Archive. Maine General Hospital in moonlight, Portland, ca."

Mercy Hospital - People of Mercy - Page 2 of 2

"During her ten years at Madigan Memorial Hospital in Houlton, Sister Mary Michael opened a pharmacy."

Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"… Saint Joseph's College in Portland and of Madigan Memorial Hospital in Houlton, and more openings of parochial schools."

Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 3 of 3

"… School of Nursing had at Mercy was with Madigan Memorial Hospital in Houlton (1915-1972). The Sisters of Mercy ran Madigan, (which had its own…"

Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"Items courtesy of Mercy Hospital and Maine Memory Network. News office storefront, Portland, ca."

Mercy Hospital - People of Mercy - Page 1 of 2

"… native of New Brunswick, she enrolled in Madigan Memorial School of Nursing in Houlton in 1937 before taking vows in the Sisters of Mercy in 1944."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahoc County Courthouse

"… offices in the Courthouse include: The Emergency Movement Agency, County Commissioners Office, County Communication Center, County Treasurer…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"After the north-south oriented bedrock underlying the parallel ridges and valleys was formed and re-formed by plate movements hundreds of millions of…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About MCHP

"The MCHP grows out of Maine Memory Network, Maine Historical Society’s nationally recognized statewide digital museum."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About Us - Page 2 of 3

"Larissa Vigue Picard, Maine Memory's Community Partnership Coordinator for the three teams, has guided the teams' website development."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 2 of 3

"Veterans Memorial, Strong, ca. 1932Strong Historical Society The GAR also had a number of auxiliaries: the Woman's Relief Corps (organized on a…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About Us - Page 3 of 3

"… with the society’s start of the yearlong Maine Memory project to research and map local homes, businesses and townspeople’s lives after the Civil…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake

"In 1963 the public beach was dedicated in memory of the late Milton Raymond Bean, a Legionaire who had devoted many hours to see that the beach…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About Us - Page 1 of 3

"She and her students also created an interactive Google Earth map based on historical locations that are part of the Maine Memory project."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

"Today that legacy lives on in a memorial trail, active guides association and a region still home to some of Maine’s finest fishing and hunting."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Grand Army of the Republic

"… a lot of time setting up funds for monuments, memorials, busts and equestrian statues of Union soldier heroes, granite shafts, urns, tablets, and…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"Hervey would allow the kids to help him bring in the flag that belonged to the Forster Memorial Building. Return to Student Research"