Maine Memory Network

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The Crew

"from the University of Maine at Orono in 2006. Candi has been active in the Swan's Island Educational Society since 2001 and took the job as…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"Penobscot Chief Joseph Orono X The Penobscot and, to a lesser extent, Passamaquoddy were known visitors to Swan’s Island."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Minturn Schoolhouse

"… can, you know how coffee used to come about that high in the cans? We’d put it on the stove and cook it." Children on the steps of the Minturn…"

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

"Prior to the ferry service, this meant attending boarding school, or boarding with other families in the Rockland and Mount Desert Island area."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"High school students now have the option of taking the ferry to school every day, although some choose to simply board on the mainland."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Ocean View Hotel

"The kids from Stonington High School used to come down once a year on the steamboat and they’d play, come up and play different, you know, their…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Playing at the pond

"… shut down entirely, its water level remained high year-round. The Quarry Pond has been used for swimming ever since."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"Judd, Edwin A. Churchill, Joel W. Eastman. Orono, Me.: University of Maine Press, 1995. Mason, Ella Jordan."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Timeline of Events

"… (MLTI) Student Conference , University of Maine, Orono June 2010 Student Team visits site of the Middleton shipwreck on Higgins Beach; Rodney…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"… Colby, Bates, and the University of Maine at Orono. By the 1960s, Bowdoin and Colby had abandoned the Georgian for the modern."

Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"… Resources Building at the University of Maine in Orono, the Schaeffer Theater at Bates College in Lewiston, and the John and Sylvia Lund Residence…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"Day, Clarence. Farming in Maine, 1860-1940. Orono, ME: University of Maine Press, 1963. Graves III, Richard A."

Life on a Tidal River - Bass Park: A History of Fillies, Fame, and Fun

"… minor league, college and high school basketball, high school and college graduations, fairs fair events circuses, concerts, ice shows, theatrical…"