Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Mono Aircraft Company, Presque Isle, 1935

"Linn was a native of Washburn. The boy standing by the front wheel is six-year-old Gary M. Boone of Presque Isle."

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…"

Historic Hallowell - Seaport on the Kennebec

"Good navigators produced good profits. Edward Preble Norton observed that in Hallowell at the time "Every boy who had arrived at the age of eighteen…"

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."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 2 of 3

"In their uncle’s backyard there was an apple tree, with one apple on it. He told the boys not to pick that apple, “or we’d get our butts kicked.”…"

John Bapst Memorial High School

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L.C. Bates Museum/Good Will-Hinckley

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 4 of 5

"They would hide behind barrels and throw potatoes at each other. If they got caught they would get in trouble. Once one boy got hit in the eye."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Junior Martin in cadet uniform, Bangor, ca. 1871

"(1857-1929) was one of a group of boys in the Select School in Bangor and a few from the grammar school who formed a cadet company and began in…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin store interior, Bangor, 1862

"… businesses in Hampden and Bangor since he was a boy. He obtained funds from Edwin B. Patten to stock the store, essentially selling items on…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 1 of 3

"I started working as a clean-up boy part time. My other job I worked was as a dairy boy. I would go to work at four in the morning for the dairy farm."

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Lincoln, Maine - Nathaniel Bodwell

"… few paragraphs" Nathaniel Bodwell was a drummer boy in the army. He was born in 1800, and died in 1874, in Lincoln, Maine."

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

"MDI boys’ high school teams were now competing with town schools throughout Hancock County, and every home game was well attended."

Skowhegan Community History - Early Settlement in Skowhegan

"The boys had to take the sheep and stay warm and hunt to survive. Peter returned to and get his familly before Joseph came back."

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

"Boy's snow suit, Bangor, ca. 1940 Brown, wool, double-breasted boys snowsuitBangor Historical Society During the war, because so many men were in…"

Historic Hallowell - Initiative and Self-Improvement

"… one’s lot and see the world wasn’t restricted to boys going to sea. In 1822, a group of young men in Hallowell, anxious to improve their minds…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 1 of 3

"Each night, the boys in the family would take turns cooking dinner. Jeremiah would usually make meatloaf or baked potatoes."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 2 of 2

"In Oxbow, the farm owners also had two boys Albert’s age. When Albert went there, he would always play with them and their horses."

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

"… on to public, parochial or private high schools--boys and girls. Many went off to college. The philanthropic spirit in Biddeford was to thank for…"

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…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Sports

"… the 1950s were all about the Brooklyn Dodger's "boys of summer" the late 1970s and early 1980s on Swan's Island were the "golden years" for the…"