Maine Memory Network

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"He gave the small, quiet, and less-prominent state of Maine a voice in our busy world, and a strong one too."

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"The town of Blue Hill paid the Academy a small amount of money, but this was barely enough to sustain it."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… a wagon ride during the mid 1700s from the small settlement of ancient North Yarmouth's coastal village of Yarmouth to the early inland settlement…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"W.W. Small, now the home of Uno Mas Restaurant, was a store and mill. The mill put in an elevator so that grains could be loaded directly into the…"

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

"… on the main street and Lester Henderson had a small grocery store across the river on Route 16. All in all it is a great place to call home."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"Army Nurse Corps, or as child in a small rural town in Maine, she accomplished numerous achievements."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… the more than 5,600 residents who take tremendous pride in their small town—residents who truly believe Maine’s motto, “The way life should be!”"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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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.

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… entrepreneurs who shared the idea of canning small herring they called “sardines” to compete with real sardines from Europe."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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