Maine Memory Network

Life on a Tidal River - Fashion of the '40s

"1940 Brown, wool, double-breasted boys snowsuitBangor Historical Society During the war, because so many men were in the military, women went to…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"Another boy traveled with them and drove their three cows. They had just reached the last home in Readfield, belonging to Constant Norton, when a…"

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"By the age of 10, boys and girls were skilled canoeists who used paddles fashioned by their fathers."

Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"… was just a normal kid, a lover of basketball, a boy who worked hard to get good grades. Where according to Secretary Cohen,"He was a pretty good…"

Lubec, Maine - The Blizzard of '34 - Page 1 of 2

"… shovel the streets.” On Tuesday 40 high school boys assisted 100 men. Blizzard, Lubec, January 1934 Lubec Historical Society Every street in…"

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…"

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"They returned in March of the following year, the boys having survived the winter on cow’s milk, hulled corn, boiled wheat, and roasted potatoes."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Church on the Hill

"Easter Sunrise Services began at 6:00 a.m. on the bank of the "Church on the Hill." The grass was hardly growing in the cold, spring air."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"But it was a great one for the boys of Mount Desert High School. They won the state championship that year and became the greatest basketball…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"… sell: “My dad used to do quillwork when I was a boy – and I always had quills stuck in my hair. And he was a birchbark craftsman."

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

"Annie Clough remembered that her father, as a boy, served up the grog at the yard where her grandfather, Asa Clough, Jr., was ship’s carpenter and…"

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

"He came upon a young boy and told him to tell the others to come out or he would send more people to the Maine School for the Feeble Minded."

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…"

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

"… looked when he began working for Martin and the boy, at right, after he had been on the farm for six months."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Resources

"… Pinkham, Down East Books, 2009 Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine, Thomas Desjardin, Oxford University Press, 1995 Civil War Regiments from Maine…"

Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware Store window display, Lincoln, ca. 1943

"… at bottom" "The aviator is some Beatham" "Archer boy & (illegible) at right of Uncle Sam" View additional information about this item on the Maine…"

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas G. Libby

"He decided to fight along side grown men, as well as his father, Thomas S. Libby, in the Civil War. This proves he is brave because not many boys…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Circus swing, Boston, 1853

"… jumped down from figure 1 and come astride of the boys leg at 2 say 7 feet the boy at 2 sustaining him without breaking his leg." View additional…"

Camp Winnebago

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

"Strong's first baseball team won their first nine games without a coach. Starting in the 1920s, students began to compete in intermural basketball…"

Guilford, Maine - SPORTS - Page 2 of 3

"In 1916 and 1917, however, the boys were excluded from the parish house and only played a few foreign courts."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Elusive Championship

"X The coach of the 2005 boys’ basketball team was Russ Bartlet, who came on board with plenty of experience."

L.C. Bates Museum/Good Will-Hinckley

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John Bapst Memorial High School

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