Keywords: rolling block
Item 12972
Remington Rolling Block Rifle, 1864
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1864 Location: Houlton Media: Steel, wood
Item 16933
Thomas Brackett Reed lapel pin, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Media: Metal
Exhibit
MY ISLAND HOME: Verlie Colby Greenleaf of Westport Island
Verlie Greenleaf (1891-1992) bore witness to over a century of Westport Island's history. Many changes occurred during Verlie's 100-year life. Verlie Greenleaf donated photographs, personal notes, and sat for an interview in 1987, all part of the Westport Island History Committee's collection. Her words frame this exhibition, providing a first-person account of her life.
Exhibit
Photographer Elijah Cobb's 1985 portfolio of the Laura E. Richards House, with text by Rosalind Cobb Wiggins and Laura E. Putnam.
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit
"… American was gracious enough to keep the presses rolling. Construction of a new office on the site of the old office began almost before the last…"
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2
"… 1880, and ran till 1882 when the line (tracks and rolling stock) was leased to the Maine Central on April 1."
Story
Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall
Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
