Maine Memory Network

Fishing Trawler Sea Bird, Portland Company, 1919

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1919 Location: South Portland; Portland Media: Photographic print

The Bird Sanctuary, Fairfield, ca. 1936

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1936 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Bird property, W. Side Sunset Road, Cliff Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Henry Bird Use: Summer Dwelling

49 Revere Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Adelbert J. Bird Use: Dwelling - Three Family

Will Bird House, Rockland, 1897

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1897 Location: Rockland Client: Will Bird Architect: John Calvin Stevens

John Bird Co. block, Rockland, 1898

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1898 Location: Rockland Client: John Bird Co. Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Hiking, Art and Science: Portland's White Mountain Club

In 1873, a group of men, mostly from Portland, formed the second known hiking club in the U.S., the White Mountain Club of Portland, to carry out their scientific interests, their love of hiking and camaraderie, and their artistic interests in painting and drawing the features of several of the White Mountains.

Hunting Season

Maine's ample woods historically provided numerous game animals and birds for hunters seeking food, fur, or hides. The promotion of hunting as tourism and concerns about conservation toward the end of the nineteenth century changed the nature of hunting in Maine.

Presque Isle: The Star City - Birds Eye mobil combine, Aroostook County, ca. 1960

"Birds Eye mobil combine, Aroostook County, ca. 1960 Contributed by Oakfield Historical Society Description A Birdseye mobil combine for…"

Maine and the Civil War - Togus Veterans' Hospital view, 1885

"… Boston Public Library Description This bird's-eye view shows the Togus home for veterans. Each building is drawn on the view and an index…"

Ivory-billed Woodpeckers
by Doug Hitchcox, Staff Naturalist at Maine Audubon

The Ivory-billed Woodpecker in the Portland Society of Natural History Collections

Making the wapi-kuhkukhahs / Snowy Owl basket
by Gabriel Frey and Gal Frey

A story of a mother and son artistic collaboration.

Longfellow Studies: "The Poet's Tale - The Birds of Killingworth"

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12 Content Area: English Language Arts, Science & Engineering, Social Studies
This poem is one of the numerous tales in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Tales of the Wayside Inn. The collection was published in three parts between 1863 and 1873. This series of long narrative poems were written by Longfellow during the most difficult personal time of his life. While mourning the tragic death of his second wife (Fanny Appleton Longfellow) he produced this ambitious undertaking. During this same period he translated Dante's Inferno from Italian to English. "The Poet's Tale" is a humorous poem with a strong environmental message which reflects Longfellow's Unitarian outlook on life.