Maine Memory Network

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"… each day to pick up local products, or to deliver dry goods, furniture and other items to local residents."

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"The Abenakis dried their seafood they caught during the summer, and brought it back to the villages to eat."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… to Portland could take two days via a circuitous dry-land route. Because of Scarborough’s unique geography consisting of marsh and rivers, it was…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… while going around marshland and using hills and dry land.(5) Concord Coach, Scarborough, ca. 1900Scarborough Historical Society & Museum In…"

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"The mills dried themselves off and were going full tilt once again, a $20 million state-of-the-art yarn manufacturing facility was planned by…"

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"The furs are hung and dried, then sent to Bangor where they tan the pelts. Mrs. Lewis, a woman who owns the little store down the street, is bidding…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… one of the beef critters, and hung the flax to dry. Shortly afterward a fire broke out, apparently something near the flax causing the fire, and…"

Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"… Mount Desert Island hit Maine during an extremely dry autumn. The entire Mercy staff stood on high alert to deal with the fires, which eventually…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"One side of Lowell's was devoted to dry goods such as: overalls, Aunt Lydia’s carpet thread, bolts of cloth, lamp chimneys, medicines and tooth…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Ebb and Flow "What is good for Dow is good for Bangor." Robert N. Haskell, 1959 Despite its best efforts, the United States could no longer avoid…"

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"The ink was barely dry on the non-compete agreements they had signed with the cartel, when they set up a company with eventually four canneries that…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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