Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Allen Building

"… Café, and across the street from Stew’s Downtown Sight and Sound. Sources: Graves III, Richard A. Forgotten Times: A Walk through History."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Ada Martin gymnastic costume, Bangor, 1864

"… in what her father called "one of the most novel sights ever exhibited in this city" -- a gymnastics demonstration."

John Martin: Expert Observer - First balloon ascension, Bangor, 1857

"He wrote, "This was one of the most magnificient sights I ever witnessed in all my day. I had read and heard of men going above the clouds, I now had…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm In Hallowell

"Oh what a sight. With the red cross helping tonight Everyone wanted to help keep alive those who yelp. Loving and caring for those they don’t know."

John Martin: Expert Observer - First electric railroad car in Bangor, 1889

"… was told from day break until 12 midnight of the sights I have seen I count this as one of the finest, to see a car literally packed as they were…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Wiscasset's Arctic Connection

"… the dockside crowd that inevitably rises at the sight of such a small vessel, such a quiet man, going so far away with so little fuss." MacMillan…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"… Indian wildly signaling him from a canoe out of sight of land, Assuming he was in trouble, the captain stopped his ship, only to find that the…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 3 of 3

"The Klan turned tail at the sight of the angry Catholic crowds, and it was probably the beginning of the two sides finally overcoming their scant…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 4 of 4

"… high in the air, rainbow rising in the spray – a sight to behold! – unbelievable the power of the water, the great river crashing to granite rock…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Comparisons

"… in more than an inch of ice coating everything in sight, the Iowa storm had more than 1/2 an inch of ice in some areas."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Bob's Bears

"1A. Wandering over I saw a strange sight. Two, or maybe three people were holding long leads that were attached to three bears; two brown; one black…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"… toward the West and the new horizons, Hugh set sights on the East and the vast natural resources that would expand his “love for paper” through its…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… all possible benefit and enjoyment from the sight of it.” -- C. Eliot, unpublished journal, 1883-1884, Loeb Library Special Collections, Graduate…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"… of the natural landscape while not losing sight of furthering the commercial attractiveness of Asticou, Charles came into his own during the 1950s…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village

"… later Norris Luce and Harold Ranger bought the sight and rebuilt the mill but the mill didn't operate long."

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"… us and you can imagine the feelings when got in sight of the Universalist Church and saw it a mass of flames."

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 1 of 4

"… the 6th, and A little fellow in it that done me a sight of good. Tody is my birthday and I have just celebrated it by A good dinner."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"The sight of Mr. Trask caused much curiosity, and they sold many of the booklets, but not enough to pay their expenses or produce much of a profit."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… years a ferry made regular crossings within sight of her home, near where the Congregationalist Church is now."

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"They opened fire and the sight that followed was terrible. The Abenakis ran towards the river and were shot down turning the river red with blood."

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"… horse drawn single and double hitches a common sight along the wharf. Lubec proved to be a good source of revenue for the steamship line which ran…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"But when we got on to the field, sights that will hardly bear description met our eyes. Turn which way we would, nearly a dozen grim corpses lay…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… that there was something immeasurably sad in the sight of a grandson of a shipmaster shingling the roof of a summer cottage for his livelihood and…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… Maine cars at South Berwick only if they were in sight; but, if not, the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth trains were to proceed to Portland without…"