Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"By the 1800s, white settlement on the island had forced most of the Native tribes including the Wabanaki, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot, into poverty."

Skowhegan Community History - About the Project

"One teacher found the scrapbook of Elise Fellows White, a child violin prodigy from Skowhegan who, in the 1880s, played in Boston at the age of ten…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"Maine's white pine, an ideal wood with many uses was used for masts for ships, lobster traps, and lumber for houses."

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

"… above freezing, reduced the accumulated white stuff a foot, leaving the streets ankle deep in cold water."

Bowdoin College Museum of Art

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… at the University of Maine in 1969; and the white and gold Star Theater sign, currently in the care of Mr. Raymond Strout of Bar Harbor."

Caribou Public Library

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Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… home so many decades before the coming of the white man. The tribes east of the Connecticut River were called the Abenaquois and this name was…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… were largely uninhabited by the time the first white settlers arrived--these foundations proved vitally important to these early pioneers."