Maine Memory Network

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - About Us

"Historians, researchers, librarians, teachers and students have all combined their skills to produce a single historical artifact which can tell the…"

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Memorial Library

"… been a place where I have borrowed books when my teacher didn't have any good books. I have also gone to events at the library, like Halloween…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Woodrow Wilson

"We had good teachers that did the best they could. Like I’ll tell you I had to take my lunch with me."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"We don’t have the teachers we had then that we do now. We had strict teachers; they could get away with it back then."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"… Legere, Robert Soucy, and Christine Wing, an art teacher at the Rumford/Mountain Valley High School for 37 years."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The MCHP Experience: In Our Own Words

"… Sally and Ray was wonderful." -Denise Doherty, Teacher Biddeford Historical Society Mr. Gaudette teaches about the Meetinghouse X "I…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"Schools were kept open as long as funds allowed, usually about eight weeks in spring and eight in winter -- four months in all."

Rumford Area Historical Society

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Blake Library Special Collections, UMFK

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Maine Conservation Corps

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… Richard and his wife Ernestine were both school teachers and taught in schools away from Mount Desert Island in Maine and California between the…"

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

"The Bangor Fire of 1911 Text by Joe Pelletier, teacher and Barbara Sprague, student. Images are from the collection of the Bangor Public Library."

Mercy Hospital - McAuley Residence

"… Sister Miriam Therese Callnan, a social studies teacher at Catherine McAuley High School. In 1986, Sister Miriam was asked to change her sabbatical…"

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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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 - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"He went on to become a respected school teacher in the Philippines where he authored a history of the Islands."