Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ice Storm Poem

"… playing cards by candlelight with battery-run radios humming to fill silence. Ice gripped the land with a hard hand as it softened neighbors’…"

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

"… her late husband Stephen McCormick, the longtime radio and television broadcaster who, among other things, broadcast President Franklin D."

Belfast Historical Society

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Historic Hallowell - The Stevens Training Center Serenaders

"… ventured into the studios of Augusta radio station WRDO. There they recorded six songs for a record album entitled Stars Over Stevens."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 2 of 3

"… cars back then were standard shift and had no radio. In fact, cars were so cheap back then that people would buy a new car about every 1 to 2 years…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"Photographer Kate Philbrick and radio producer Rob Rosenthal produced Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold in collaboration with WMPG-FM and the…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - About the Project

"… both Kate Philbrick and I taught, came into my radio class one day and said “Have you heard about this island near Phippsburg? It’s crazy."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"And we had a radio with batteries. And so every night we would all sit around and listen to this one radio station."

Stetson Historical Society

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Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"… Burnham’s Auto Supply (1933-1953) Fullerton’s Radio (1953-1955) Belanger’s Variety (1955-1972) The Hobby Shoppe (1972-2006) Daybreak…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Explore photos from the "Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold" documentary

"… Kate Philbrick, photographer, and Rob Rosenthal, radio producer in February, 2009. The Salt Institute gallery exhibition included photographs of…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"… asked to speak at civic events and made several radio talk show appearances. Shep Hurd was proud of his involvement in the capture of the Brady…"

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"Central Maine Radio Services & Sales was established. Temporary Foot Bridge, Guilford, 1954Guilford Historical Society In the early 1950’s the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 4 of 4

"… Masons, a member of the Lions Club and an amateur radio operator. In 1951 following a terrible accident at Scottow Hill, Dr."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

"… grounds, locate the schools of herring, and radio the location to the fishermen. The fisherman would find the spot and use a "purse" net to collect…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation

"from Long Island. The crew radioed that something was wrong later in the evening and the plane never reached Newfoundland; their remains were never…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"… materials integral to the production of the radio broadcast and gallery show. Acheson, James M., The Lobster Gangs of Maine, 1988, University Press…"

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.

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… talking to local fishermen on the Citizen’s Band radio. Kids were welcome to join Mame for casual meals too: much to the delight of young visitors…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"… plants and animals), low-quality televisions, radios, and projectors. Most of the technology found in schools of the past seems archaic to us."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… of summer, WAGM transformed itself from an AM radio station to a television station, and the Aroostook Centre Mall continues to be a shopping…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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