Maine Memory Network

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"After seeing the TV movie The Day After and its depiction of nuclear holocaust in 1983, Nowick planned an ambitious 12 concert series including all…"

Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"In February of that year the telephone company made Lincoln the toll center for this division. This division included the towns of Olamon, which only…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… influence, but for his direct impact on the day-to-day operations of a community in its infancy."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… Fulton Redman, spent most of the year in New York and summers in Bar Harbor. He was also an avid supporter of the Ku Klux Klan."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"He settled first in Hallowell, Maine, where he remained for about six years. During his tenure there, he may have become acquainted with others who…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"Our army has been steadily pushing on, cutting new roads, building new bridges until the advance is now in about four miles of Richmond."

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"Bangor planned days of celebration to bookend the overnight stay of the party: there was a parade, military review, fire engine trials, a regatta, a…"

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"One day the English took his strong box full of incriminating letters. These letters were to said to have encouraged the Norridgewocks to fight…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Andrew Anderson

"… a meat inspector she worked with hot dogs and one day she asked me if I wanted to see how hot dogs are made. And I said yes..."

Southwest Harbor Public Library

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Island Postmistresses

"… the city and daily papers are received on the day of publication In no other way has the improvement been greater than in the management of the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"… exempt from sickness or disease during its early days. In 2010 the Dixfield Historical Society acquired over thirty diaries from the former Nelson…"

Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family

"Sylvia lived to 102, eight days before her 103rd birthday. Stephen Stanislaus was born to the Penobscot tribe in Mattawamkeag in 1831 by his mother…"

Lincoln, Maine - Carney's Store

"… and come back to pay for the clothes within a few days. Carney’s just added to the mix of shopping for local clothes and it also added to the mix…"

Prince Memorial Library

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Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"… Lubec, 1911 Lubec Historical Society Two days of bunting-clad celebration, on Monday and Tuesday, July 3 and 4, culminated with the pageantry of a…"

Lincoln, Maine - Gateway Motors

"I had school, so I had to walk that day when I was in elementary school. Another connection I have with this building is every day after school I…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Building Boom and Piers above the Falls

"… booms that were built in the rivers, in the early days of paper mills. The rivers were the main way of getting the logs to the mills at that time."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"On the day that Captain Moulton and Captain Harmon led their troops once again to the scenic village along the Kennebec, the weather was mild for it…"

Lincoln, Maine - Newspapers

"74-77. Print. "Roaring Lions to Be Heard at Lincoln Field Day." Various Articles, White Binder. Lincoln Historical Society, Lincoln, 1932. Print."

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."

Lincoln, Maine - Nathaniel Bodwell

"Picturing that day when you know that your little boy was going to become a man and see things that you hoped he would never have to see, just…"

Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware

"… theirs went out they would need to wait another day to get it if the Weatherbee Hardware store wasn’t there."