Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato import protest, Presque Isle, 1982

"… of opposition to imported Canadian potatoes, a group of Aroostook County potato farmers filled the parking lot of the Presque Isle Agricultural…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Balloon liftoff memorial, Presque Isle, 1981

"Her group sponsored a memorial to the liftoff. Students from Northern Maine Vocational Technical Institute created the monument."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - About Us

"The Georges Valley High School is located in downtown Thomaston and serves children from the MSAD 50 district (comprising Cushing, Thomaston and St."

Life on a Tidal River - Flood Exhibit Work

"… One day each week students were divided into four groups: one scanning artifacts with Bill Cook, Bangor Public Library Special Collections…"

Brewer Public Library

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"… orchestra performances from Bath's own musical group. The Columbian Theatre business rented the building and never owned it."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - "Good the more communicated, the more abundant grows" : The Thursday Club

"Everywhere groups of women were found who eagerly seized the idea and shaped it according to their own conditions and needs."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Welcome and Introduction

"… been a work in progress since 2006, when a first group of high school students, historical organizations, and individuals undertook a pilot project…"

Life on a Tidal River - Resources

"Minneapolis: Lerner Publishing Group, 1993. Print. Football Geagan, Bill. "Rams Romp to Third Victory: Bangor Defeats Bapst 39-0 in Annual Gridiron…"

Cumberland Historical Society

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"… fishing party boats summer afternoons, taking groups to catch mackerel, pollack, flounder, cod and haddock along the coast."

Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 1 of 3

"The island communities were a close-knit group, a sea-going people who fraternized with each other largely because of the isolation of island living…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"The Central School burned December 24, 1906, and in 1907 a new school was built and named Abbott School for Elizabeth Abbott who had originally…"

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 2 of 2

"May 28, 2004: The mill is purchased by a small group for $23.7 million, who change the name to Lincoln Paper & Tissue LLC."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"Breaking down these provincial barriers was difficult, and athletics led the transition to a larger, more unified school community."

Life on a Tidal River - Cohen Students

"… One day each week students were divided into four groups: one scanning artifacts with Bill Cook, Bangor Public Library Special Collections…"

Life on a Tidal River - Work on the Civil War Project

"… One day each week students were divided into four groups: one scanning artifacts with Bill Cook, Bangor Public Library Special Collections…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"Andrew and Arthur Alger, part of Stratton's group, had moved ashore and purchased the tract from the heirs of Wackwarreska, Sagamore of Owascoag."

Architecture & Landscape database - Project Background and Partners

"… CWS Architects, East Brown Cow, The Knickerbocker Group, and Simons Architects, MHS converted the Microsoft access database to an online MMN…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… at the beginning of the Medieval Warm Period, a group of people would winter at the mouth of Presque Isle Stream."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"… as they worked, but now fraternal and farmer's groups, such as the Grange, which reached its peak in the early part of the century, created an…"

Biddeford Mills Museum

A historic mill museum dedicated to creating exhibits that will educate the community and highlight mill history; as a research collection to assist the public in locating information on the mill's buildings, history and employees; and to ensure the story of Biddeford's economic and industrial revolution remains relevant and accessible to diverse audiences.

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"As time went by, other groups of summer residents followed in the footsteps of rusticators and came to summer in Blue Hill."