Maine Memory Network

Funeral service, St. Mary's Church, Lewiston, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Franco Center Date: circa 1940 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print

Good Cheer Lodge hat, Guilford, ca. 1875

Contributed by: Guilford Historical Society Date: circa 1875 Location: Guilford Media: Felt

We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.

Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.

Father John Bapst: Catholicism's Defender and Promoter

Father John Bapst, a Jesuit, knew little of America or Maine when he arrived in Old Town in 1853 from Switzerland. He built churches and defended Roman Catholics against Know-Nothing activists, who tarred and feathered the priest in Ellsworth in 1854.

Historic Hallowell - Meeting at Koussinok

"… river was called Koussinok (“the place of sacred rites beside the rippling waters”) and was considered sacred by the Abenaki because their…"

Lincoln, Maine - World War I

"This was after the war. It is still standing near Rite Aid. The monument is of a “dough boy”. A dough boy is a specially trained soldier who is able…"