Maine Memory Network

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"… playing with native island kids: "When I was a child… we did have cars but if you went across the island to go to a store or something it was like…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 1 of 2

"… as a tailor in Ellsworth, died when his only child was 11 months old. Because John Martin did not know much about his father, he wanted to insure…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Village Schools

"One group had the slogan, “A seat for every child.” Five teachers spent about two-week’s pay to purchase their own desks to assist in furnishing…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… went down to his house where with my wife and child and I took supper After supper I took the boy in my arms and started for the pinnacle."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"… July 20, 1988, with Elmire Kimball, a 5-year-old child at the time of the fire, the scene was described as one of chaos, fear, horror, and…"

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"They killed the woman and a child and Bomazeen ran to warn the others in the village. He was shot down in the river where it is still today called…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… Stewart Family Daniel Stewart's Other Chair Child's SizeFarmington Historical Society Daniel Stewart's Chair Child's sizeFarmington…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"The man and his dog, sometimes even his child if he had a son, would go out hunting. Whatever they would catch, the woman would skin clean and…"

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"“Good gracious, child! He’s an old man compared to you!” she chuckled. I told her that I would then marry someone like him, someone kind…"

Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"Elizabeth’s Child Development Center. Residents like Deborah Minton, who lived at St. Elizabeth’s between 1966 and 1968, remembered the security the…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"A child would have to hold up his fingers to say whether he was going “number one” or “number two” so that the teacher would know how long he was…"

Pejepscot Historical Society

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"She was the first child of this new family to Charles Morris Blake and Charlotte Farmington Blake. After her birth there were three more children."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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