Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's cart, Hampden, ca. 1833

"… a cart tongue such as are in general use for boy and baby carriages now I made a perfect cart with stake rings side boards Snibells to lip up and…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Canoe race, Kenduskeag Stream, Bangor, 1865

"… Sharpshooter, and Newel Nicola and Horace Francis the Penobscot Boy. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

Guilford, Maine - SPORTS - Page 3 of 3

"… the Guilford Historical Society The History of Boys Soccer in Guilford The Guilford soccer team was established in 1968, under the leadership of…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"… a frequent visitor to Holmantown to “visit his boys down in Maine.” According to the History of the Town Sutton, Massachusetts by the Reverends W."

Historic Hallowell - A Chosen Place ~ Once Again

"… is still bringing forth children, educating the boys and girls for weal or woe; she will still send them forth to every mountain, plain and sea…"

Historic Hallowell - The Information Call Script

"… RUNNING OUTTA HIS STORE, AND I NOTICED A LITTLE BOY TRAPPED INSIDE HIS STORE, AFTER THE CYCLONE CAME THERE WERE DOCTORS THERE, FROM THERE, THEY…"

Historic Hallowell - Timeline of Cyclone

"… barely bigger than it's stable! After " A little boy named Virgil White was injured in the cyclone."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell History Bibliography

"“Hallowell Boys At Home and Abroad.” Hallowell Register (May 17, 1884). “Hallowell Historic District.” Inventory-Nomination Form."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Farm Life

"There were four boys and two girls. They picked potatoes in the end of September and early October. They picked strawberries in early June."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 1 of 2

"… he worked at the JJ Newberry Company as a stock boy and cleaner. He also worked for his father by cutting down trees and making pulp."

Abel J. Morneault Memorial Library

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Otisfield Historical Society

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Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"Boys practiced marksmanship with scaled-down bows and arrows. The girls would gather nuts, greens, roots and firewood."

Lincoln, Maine - World War I

"The monument is of a “dough boy”. A dough boy is a specially trained soldier who is able to fight one on one with the enemy."

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."

Historic Hallowell - Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer

"As a boy he worked for Major John Quincy Adams Hawes, a retired Army surgeon who operated a pharmacy in downtown Hallowell."

Historic Hallowell - The Cyclone of 1895

"A young boy named Virgil White was caught in the cyclone and badly injured. Both of his legs were broken as well as his right ankle and collar bone."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village Schools

"… school registers 25 students (seventeen boys and eight girls) were listed. Grade 4 had seven students. Grade 5 had nine students."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Bob's Bears

"Well, boys and girls, every year on a warm summer's afternoon, at about the time of the Bangor Fair, I think of a happening from my early days on…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Ocean View Hotel

"… on the settees and that was fine, but not me, boy—music, I right up and at ‘em! I remember—we used to go in there and have pie and ice cream."

Early Maine Photography - Family Groups

"Two boys stand behind them and a third sits in front of his father. O.R. Patch family, Bangor, ca."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"It employed more than 700 men, women, and boys. The printing department alone employed more than 100 employees."

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"Schmidt, Gary, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, 2006, Random House, New York. Shipler, David K., A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in…"

Bangor Public Library

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