Maine Memory Network

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early History - 1719 to 1740

"Encouraged by this profitable business, Waldo gathered several Scottish Presbyterian families together, bringing them to the area with renewed hopes…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders At Play

"A group of musicians, many from Maine, gather and perform in the Odd Fellows Hall for three nights usually in early August."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… first club, the Oasis (founded in 1874) where men gathered to drink and talk. Women, excluded from this men’s association, founded a social club of…"

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

"They gathered from Ridge, Split Hill, McCurdy, and Straight Bay, rural schools all, with teachers and some parents and friends."

NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters Historic Site

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Summary Notes

"Below freezing, people gathered to friends houses or the shelters that were provided for the people with out power."

Lincoln, Maine - Masonic Hall

"… because they held secret meetings and other gatherings. They were for sure a secret organization."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"… a social center at landing time when islanders gathered to exchange news and goods. Another form of transportation was supplied by the Maine…"

Northeast Historic Film

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"… from all points of the town to hold a day-long gathering to vote on important elected positions of the town and to discuss the building of roads."

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"… were generally spacious and suited to social gatherings and gracious living. In 1884, Wilde Rose, now named Shoreacre, was the first cottage to be…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"Strong's alumni still gather one weekend each August. County ChampionsStrong Historical Society By today’s standards, late 1800s and even early…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… in March 1880, when Harvard student Charles Eliot gathered six of his friends together in 34 Grays Hall in Cambridge to discuss a camping…"

Lincoln, Maine - Methodist Church

"… churches were for meeting places and a place to gather for suppers. Churches are also used for shelters, concerts, weddings, and celebrations."

Early Maine Photography - The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection

"… (MHS), to provide a permanent home for the images gathered by the two collectors. The collection was again featured within MHS' 2015 exhibition…"

Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"As far as I could see it was just a happy gathering and a place to work and earn a few pennies. Audio here."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - A Murder In Strong

"… she returns not." X The next day townspeople gathered in the area to help with the search. All the fields, pastures and wooded areas between…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"… Hall in town also served as a place for people to gather. Movies were shown here, and dances were held almost every Saturday night."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… Neck (North Lubec) during the spring smelt run, gathered sweet grass and harvested shellfish, the remains of which have been discovered in shell…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… and people retained a food foraging/ hunting and gathering strategy until after the arrival of Europeans."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"Curtis hired farm boys to go out in the woods and gather the sap. Scraping the resin from the trees was painstaking work, and bits of bark, twigs…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"They hosted rallies, gathered petitions, and took a number of other official actions requesting the state government to prohibit alcoholic beverages…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… and religious meetings, and other cultural gatherings. Bangor was one of the first cities in the United States to have a railroad."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"Some entities existed strictly for social gathering with others were created to better the lives of local citizens."