Maine Memory Network

Instrument Makers' banner, Portland, 1841

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1841 Location: Portland Media: Oil on linen

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Henry and Rose Harris, ca. 1878

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1878 Location: Mercer Media: Stereograph

11-13 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Estate of Patrick Keating Use: Shop - Machine

Remembering Mellie Dunham: Snowshoe Maker and Fiddler

Alanson Mellen "Mellie" Dunham and his wife Emma "Gram" Dunham were well-known musicians throughout Maine and the nation in the early decades of the 20th century. Mellie Dunham also received fame as a snowshoe maker.

Music in Maine - Music Makers

"One banner promoted the Cabinet Makers, Chair Makers, Organ Builders, Piano Forte Makers, Turners, and Plane Makers."

Historic Hallowell - Solid Foundations - Hallowell Granite

"… quarrying granite soon followed as a money-maker. Maternity, Hallowell Granite Works, ca."

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas S. Libby

"Thomas S. Libby was a wheelwright and carriage maker in the town of Lincoln, Maine. He was a wheelwright and carriage maker from 1841 to 1861."

Too Small to Have a Town Drunk
by Scott Maker

Vignettes from Downeast Maine

Lift the Boats for Everybody
by Andrea Cianchette Maker

The story of her immigrant great grandfather and her nonprofit organization Focus Maine.

Wabanaki Studies: Stewarding Natural Resources

Grade Level: 3-5 Content Area: Science & Engineering, Social Studies
This lesson plan will introduce elementary-grade students to the concepts and importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Indigenous Knowledge (IK), taught and understood through oral history to generations of Wabanaki people. Students will engage in discussions about how humans can be stewards of the local ecosystem, and how non-Native Maine citizens can listen to, learn from, and amplify the voices of Wabanaki neighbors to assist in the future of a sustainable environment. Students will learn about Wabanaki artists, teachers, and leaders from the past and present to help contextualize the concepts and ideas in this lesson, and learn about how Wabanaki youth are carrying tradition forward into the future.