Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Initiative and Self-Improvement

"… reports and poems, performed dialogs, enacted scenes from plays and debated. Their meetings extended over four years, and their papers were…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"They left Saturday night and Sunday morning, the 4th Inst. after showing us all night. Saturday we worked in the trenches within one third of a mile…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"… hampered his rescue, and Scribner died at the scene. State Street ruins, Bangor, 1911Bangor Public Library We little realized going through…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"The program included a life-size nativity scene, and a stage for nightly performances. On the podium with the President for the lighting were: Mrs."

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

"… to continue amid the distractions of the social scene, and the members began to treat their time on the island less as a studious endeavor and more…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… 125 actors and crew on the island and they shot scenes off Ocean Drive, on Scatterlee Beach, and on the rocks and in the water at various locations…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"… a 5-year-old child at the time of the fire, the scene was described as one of chaos, fear, horror, and destitution."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"E.M. Fuller came to the scene when he heard the bang of the wood. He was being rushed home by horse and carriage but sadly died before they reached…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Colby College Special Collections

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