Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Day 4 - Page 1 of 3

"A man was found dead because he was running a generator in his basement due to carbon-monoxide poisoning and that's what happened on day 4 of the…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ice Storm Poem

"This woven web of flashing silver was deadly. Trees cried out in anguish as their heavy limbs gave way to crack and separate, in turn crushing stiff…"

Historic Hallowell - Days 6 & 7

"The sources of this deadly gas turned out to be none other than a generator recently installed. The man had not yet known that this dangerous gas was…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Marcellus Emery, Bangor, ca. 1864

"… as writing in his newspaper in 1861, "52 thousand dead bodies will be traveled over before a democrat can be compeled to go and defend the Capital…"

Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 1 of 2

"… portrait busts and ideal works such as The Dead Pearl Diver and St. Elizabeth of Hungary. His promising career ended prematurely in his death from…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 3 of 4

"In solid colors the ground will be a dead, rep-like fabric, and the velvet figure will be quite large.” This fashion for contrasting plain and…"

Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March

"Dead wrong. Lead canteen left on Skowhegan Island by one of Arnold's soldiers X The Dead River was mostly all swamp, hard to pass through…"

Early Maine Photography - Art

"… Paul Delaroche declared, "From today, painting is dead." Yet the daguerreotype would not replace the artist’s hand, but instead become a tool to be…"

Early Maine Photography - Post-Mortem & Mourning

"… by today’s standards, these pictures of the dead were commonplace in mid-nineteenth century culture and were cherished as keepsakes by which to…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"… winter that left nearly half the colonists dead. A few years later, an English settlement was established at the mouth of the Kennebec River."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"The G-men were closing in on Brady and Shaffer fast. Machine guns were still pelting the street with bullets. Brady was hit and fell dead in the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement

"… Maine – Savages seem to be always on the move, dead or alive! (Forest Hill Cemetery was created in 1904 by John and Sarah Savage’s grandson, A.C."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Day 1

"… on the limbs, coating them in a deep glaze of deadly ice and causing them to fall on utility lines and roads."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"… to the front, we met scores wounded, dying and dead, being carried off on stretchers. Some slightly wounded were limping off but told us to go in…"

Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"(Later) The mill is dead, burned to the ground, at least mostly. Thankfully we got there soon enough to save the woods and some of the lumber, but…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… cooking, and caring for the sick, elderly, and dead. She took on these roles in an era where there were no modern services as we benefit from…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… babies come into the world, and they laid the dead to rest. Women's lives were hard and they often died young."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"… “Visit the sick, Relieve the distress, Bury the dead, and Educate the orphan”. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows was one the oldest and most…"

Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"… Hospital opened its doors in response to the deadly epidemic, fulfilling the city’s ever-growing need for services."

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Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Woodbury

"… would like to meet him, but I can’t because he’s dead, so I will have to do with what I learned. Works Cited Goodwin, Kathryn B."

Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals

"Many of the people in our town would be dead without the hospitals, which means there would be fewer jobs and workers."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"Father Rasle was shot dead and his scalp taken to Boston for display. Thirty natives died that day and half that many were wounded."

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"Willard at his rein. Now he is dead at aged seventeen The finest bay we have ever seen. We’ll miss this wonder of the track Would give our all to…"