Maine Memory Network

Rum, Riot, and Reform - The Continuing Debate

"Wine with dinner, beer at a ballgame, and champagne at a wedding are pleasures that many adults can enjoy without difficulty or overindulgence."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Reform and Repeal

"X Who Profits from Beer? Christian Civic League of Maine Collections of Maine Historical Society Coll."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1620 to 1820: New England's Great Secret

"… who had the right to drink the final allotment of beer. Considered medicine in Europe, where much of the water was polluted, alcohol was consumed…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Society Copes

"X Hires Root Beer Early 20th century Collections of Maine Historical Society 1997.248 Hires Root Beer was marketed as a "great temperance drink."…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Business as Usual

"… of Will Anderson and The Great State of Maine Beer Book X Portland City Directory 1903 Collections of Maine Historical Society While it…"

Historic Hallowell - Kennebec Wire Company

"Isinglass was a clarifier put into beer made out of fish gills and tongues. After four years, a more economical and efficient way of creating the…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Drinking Implements

"… a year, their home was intact and the jug of beer untouched. "Our fathers, having discarded everything else, betook themselves for recreation to…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"… were grown and exported to the Boston area for beer making. District 7 School, Roxbury, 1915Byron Historical Society Over the years Byron has…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Acknowledgements

"Adams Will Anderson, The Great, State of Maine Beer Book Bangor Historical Society Debra Verrier Barry Baxter Memorial Library Bowdoin College…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Politics and Enforcement

"Haley bought a beer manufactory in Biddeford and began bottling non-alcoholic beverages such as root beer in 1871."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1865 to 1919: The Drys Gain New Adherents and Leaders

"… their native culture through traditional beer or wine making. College students continued to see social drinking as a rite of passage."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Drinking: Elegance and Debauchery

"X Ginger Beer Bottle, ca. 1825-1850 Bourne, Denby, England Stoneware Collections of Dyer Library / Saco Museum Increasingly soft drinks were…"

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"… brought to us the Skinner’s Furniture Store, two beer parlors, Weatherbee’s Hardware Store, The Community Movie Theater, the “Five & Dime” Variety…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Women Leaders and Temperance

"… carrying signs such as "Bread is better than beer". X W.C.T.U. Prohibition Progress ca."