Maine Memory Network

Oakfield Grange 414

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation

"1924Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Aviation and news about visiting aviators was always a big topic in the Evening Express and Press…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection

"A fire burning on the wharf in the afternoon could be aerially photographed and published that evening, an impressive and telling feat for the 1930s."

Houlton Grange

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Cities of Smoke and Soot

"X The cities of Biddeford and Saco have long been a center for lumbering, textiles and shipbuilding."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Artists and Inventors of Biddeford

"Particularly in the arts and technology, the folks in Biddeford have found new and striking ways to express themselves."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 2 of 3

"Thursday Club program, Biddeford, 1897McArthur Public Library Women were entrepreneurial in their own right, and started social, educational, and…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - 1925 National Governors' Association Convention

"The fanfare and stellar national attendance for the convention was due to a concerted advertising “punch” that was made to showcase the states…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Sports

"… occupied a prominent role in the Press Herald and Evening Express papers. The Portland Press Herald Glass Plate Collection contains many examples…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"They planted beans, corn, and squash and hunted deer and other wild game as well. Occasionally they warred with other tribes along their frontiers…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Shipbuilding in Biddeford: Lore, Leaders, and Legacy

"… tonnage of Ships or vessels, and on goods, wares and merchandises imported into the United States” led to the creation of the “District of…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Resources and Links

"Cumberland Farmers Club. “The Cumberland County Fair.” www.cumberlandfair.com Cumberland Farmers Market."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 1 of 2

"Wages in Biddeford and throughout Maine were lower, people who would have made a good living in manufacturing were underemployed and working poor…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 2 of 2

"A growing community of artists and entrepreneurs are breathing new life into the downtown, and hope to transform it back into the lively neighborhood…"

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

"… output was high in terms of people and products, and the busts of 1930's would not hit this area in the same way as many parts of the state and the…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"Concerts, minstrel and vaudeville shows, oratories, chorales and dramatics were all available on a regular basis by nationally known stars as well as…"

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

"… and service organizations, including the Gift Club, Senior Citizens Club, Aurora Grange, American Legion, Order of the Eastern Star, Freemasons…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… raised the red, white and blue colors of their club, called the Champlain Society after Samuel de Champlain. This was not just a vacation, however."

Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"David Field of the Maine Appalachian Trail Club wrote that “Avery also was very keen on having the Katahdin area designated as a national park and he…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - EXHIBITS

"… & SHAKERS THE CIVIL WAR & BIDDEFORD THE THURSDAY CLUB ARTISTS AND INVENTORS OF BIDDEFORD These original 5 exhibits were researched and written by…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"Biddeford Historical Society. (T) Thursday Club Collection (1894-1985). (DC.51) McArthur Library Special Collections."

Porter Memorial Library

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"The Chisholm Ski Club, founded in the early 1920s, offered winter Nordic and Cross Country skiing, and hosted an annual winter carnival, first at its…"