Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - The Information Call Script

"… RUNNING OUTTA HIS STORE, AND I NOTICED A LITTLE BOY TRAPPED INSIDE HIS STORE, AFTER THE CYCLONE CAME THERE WERE DOCTORS THERE, FROM THERE, THEY…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell History Bibliography

"“Hallowell Boys At Home and Abroad.” Hallowell Register (May 17, 1884). “Hallowell Historic District.” Inventory-Nomination Form."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Fred Ryder, Bangor, 1864

"Martin wrote, "I claim the change in this boy which I wrought wholly by my advice and kind usage, and he is the third boy which I have influenced and…"

Historic Hallowell - Cyclone Poems

"… I am stuck and it is tight Help has come for me Boy In a dark tight space A faint light appears slowly I am carried out Boy and Horse by Emily and…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Pendleton Library. Islesboro High School Boys' Basketball Team, 1906Islesboro Historical Society There never seemed to be a shortage of…"

Skowhegan Community History - Early Settlement in Skowhegan

"The boys had to take the sheep and stay warm and hunt to survive. Peter returned to and get his familly before Joseph came back."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"… to the curriculum and organized intramural boys’ and girls’ sports teams. Strong's first baseball team won their first nine games without a coach…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood

"All of the boys in the family had that same tendency to the creative and the mechanical. Chester did indeed patent Ear Muffs when he was 15 years old."

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… Centennial, by Lee Sanford, a former Guilford boy who had played in the President's band for a number of years."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"The residents could not hear the fine band. “So boys, hold in while the band is in action and then let your lungs proclaim how much you have enjoyed…"

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"Boys practiced marksmanship with scaled-down bows and arrows. The girls would gather nuts, greens, roots and firewood."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Bob's Bears

"Well, boys and girls, every year on a warm summer's afternoon, at about the time of the Bangor Fair, I think of a happening from my early days on…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 4 of 4

"She babysat the town manager’s three boys next door. Every time she went there the parents would have dinner guests and she would have to do all of…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"Two young boys aged 12 and 16 remained all of that winter alone in the small dwelling. They trapped and hunted in order to survive and were much…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… had some specialized schools, including a dancing school and a singing school. Its cultural development continued with the advent of The Surry…"

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

"a man or woman boy or girl may look back and sigh for some small relic hereby to enliven their memory perhaps in a distant county when even a person…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"Waterman Company of Bangor, where boys of all ages were invited to compete in 100 yard dashes. On the Fourth of July, patrons were enticed with the…"

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

"… on the settees and that was fine, but not me, boy—music, I right up and at ‘em! I remember—we used to go in there and have pie and ice cream."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"The older boys in almost every family went to sea as ordinary seamen and many of them died at sea. The heyday of American shipping was from 1815 to…"

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

"The oldest boy was appointed the janitor and had to arrive at school early, bring in the wood or coal and keep the fire going throughout the day."

Historic Hallowell - Initiative and Self-Improvement

"… one’s lot and see the world wasn’t restricted to boys going to sea. In 1822, a group of young men in Hallowell, anxious to improve their minds…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

"This school master taught alternately ¼ of the time at Black Point and then at Dunstan. In 1735 the town hired another school master, Robert Bailey."

Historic Hallowell - A Chosen Place ~ Once Again

"… is still bringing forth children, educating the boys and girls for weal or woe; she will still send them forth to every mountain, plain and sea…"

Historic Hallowell - Timeline of Cyclone

"… barely bigger than it's stable! After " A little boy named Virgil White was injured in the cyclone."