Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …next came the artists and rusticators.

"… inspired other famous artists to follow in his wake—including Frederic Edwin Church and Fitz Henry Lane."

Presque Isle Air Museum

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Farm Life

"They would wake up early, at five o’ clock, to do chores around the farm and house. She worked in the gardens."

Historic Hallowell - Days 6 & 7

"… of 1998 left a huge trail of destruction in its wake. Many people were left without power and many others with something that they could hardly…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 1 of 2

"… There were some large employers left in the wake, but not big enough to fill the void left by the closures of York and Saco-Lowell."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"… the best top-down view of border-formation in the wake of the Treaty of Ghent. When it became clear that the commission process would not produce a…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 3 of 5

"… land companies which had been organized in the wake of the fall of Acadia—in particular the Pejepscot Proprietors—were immediately alarmed by what…"

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.

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"In 1989, in the wake of relaxation of Communist Party control in the increasingly unstable Soviet Union, the Leningrad Amateur Opera Company and…"

Maine State Museum

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

"… allowed to sleep after 11 p.m., but farmers would wake her about 5 a.m. There was a large switchboard with digits in which connecting plugs were…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of West New Portland

"… many of New Portland's old timers and did not wake up one morning and decide when the wire bridge was built and how. Mr."

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"… was not yet up, Braden would nudge his cot and wake him up. John N.W. Willard was born in Oxbow, Maine on June 22, 1857."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"In the wake of the sardine industry’s demise those fishermen who remained turned to the lobster, scallop, shellfish and urchin fishery."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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