Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block

"To become a member of the Masons, a man must have been at least 21 years old and had lived in the vicinity of a Masonic lodge for one year."

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

"… I would never dispute any science projected by man untill it was fully demonstrated that it was a failure or an impossibility..." In a "Scrap &…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 139-194

"… River, a clam voyage to Cape Jellerson, saving a man at the eddy at Carls Point, a failed romance, operating a butchering cart with his father…"

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

"Bangor Public Library, Bangor, ME. Microfilm. Manning, Warren H. and The Civic Improvement Committee. Bangor City Plan: The Burned District."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin Sr. home, Ellsworth, 1823

"… Cromwell, England, and came to Maine as a young man. The senior Martin worked as a tailor. He married Anna Stratton in 1822 and they settled in…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1900-1910 - Page 1 of 3

"… Joseph Lyendecker's famous "The Arrow Shirt Man" advertisements, as well as the Saturday Evening Post covers, featuring sporty young women and men…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 6 of 13

"… Farmer Donald Gallagher talks about a young man who filled 142 barrels in a day.  Most pickers could fill 20 to 40 barrels per day."

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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

"… warrant that good deer hunting be found.” One man who answered Joe’s ad was William Lyman Underwood, grandson to William Underwood who established…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"… Norris Mitchell: “When my father was a young man he worked as a bellboy at the Malvern for at least ten years."

Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 1 of 2

"And Calvin London, a good man giving his time to the kids as in preceding years, with his dinghy and its outboard motor."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Tilson's Hat

"Perez Henry Tilson was the first man to die from Thomaston in the Civil War. He was killed by a cannon ball that blew off both of his legs."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"When Francis was a young man, his father Chief Jean Baptiste Neptune worked helping the American colonists in Machias during the American…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 1 of 2

"a man or woman boy or girl may look back and sigh for some small relic hereby to enliven their memory perhaps in a distant county when even a person…"

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… Portland around 1800 “to grow with the town.” A man of great talent and wide-ranging interests, he seemed never to be idle."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"Even though you were really young did you have to take on any responsibilities? No not many. We played a lot and helped out around the house and had…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 1 of 2

"… Stan Kaubris, and Ray McKenna with a key sixth man in Joe Ziko. The ’73 team ended the regular season with fifteen wins and three losses and lost a…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"… Aqueduct Company was proclaimed to be for both Man and Beast. The Minister of the North Church was preaching one Sunday when he honored Mr."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"In 1991 an angry man broke into his house and threatened his wife with a fake bomb. And, in 1999, he was nearly killed by a van while he was taking a…"

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

"… 1861Bangor Historical Society One young Bangor man, Frederick H. Rogers, signed enlistment papers on May 3rd 1861."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"The fact that this man was able to make a classical violin without formal training and using regular carpenter’s tools is astonishing.” Litchfield…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Hampden Academy

"… more began to flourish under the direction of a man by the name of Mr. Tribou. However, it was not long before he was called to duty as a Chaplain…"

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

"… of the entrepreneurship and foresight of a young man thrust into supporting his mother and siblings at the early age of thirteen, upon the…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 2 of 2

"… by describing himself: General business man, Expert Accountant, Landscape Gardener, Rustic designer, Origin of Martins perfect Waltz & March. I…"