Maine Memory Network

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"On rare occasions Stevens turned to professional architectural delineators such as David A. Gregg of Boston, who created the beautiful 1909…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"… Garden in the late 1950s and a small library of rare botanical books for Thuya Lodge. John D. Rockefeller Jr. letter to Charles K."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"Two finer types of youth and age you will rarely see.” Frank "Big Thunder" Loring, Bar Harbor, ca."

Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"… view of the Eastern Star float, one of the rare Centennial photos which has surfaced taken by a person other than the professional photographer A…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

"Students rarely faced each other and had little interaction. By 1930, most desks were portable, but were still used in the same way as the old desks…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Church on the Hill

"Ransom E. Gilkey providing “rare qualities of patience, tact, vision, and judgment that cemented the union and started it on a firm basis.” In 1917…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 1 of 2

"… to pass a resolve on my own account." Martin rarely left it to the reader to guess what his views were, probably because he saw the Journal and…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"… at Nahant, 1850 Maine Historical Society This rare glass stereo view shows a beardless Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) sitting on the porch…"

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"The term rusticator is rarely used to describe current summer residents of Blue Hill. By WWII, the lifestyle had changed and the term started to be…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 4 of 4

"… was blamed for children's problems and was rarely given. The American school system stayed this way until the fifties, when the Soviet Union…"

Caribou Public Library

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Elusive Championship

"… Maine State Championship game, and the stakes had rarely been higher for the students on the Hampden Academy Broncos boys basketball team."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"Rare trees and unusual species were brought to town to improve the aesthetics of the community and to create better agricultural stocks."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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