Maine Memory Network

Music in Maine - Music Education

"… Click to learn more about the Eastern Music Camp Music teacher Dorothy Harlow Marden of Waterville and other educators formed an organization that…"

Music in Maine - Music stores

"Piano and guitar teacher Mary Curran Leighton (1885-1972) and her spouse, Clifford Leighton, ran a music store in Portland where they sold…"

Music in Maine - Country Music

"I have always enjoyed most genres of music, but country music appealed to me the most. What really captivated me were the stories told (some true…"

Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music

"… English folk songs, Scots-Irish fiddle and dance music, sacred music, and banjo and blues from formerly enslaved Africans."

Music in Maine - Drum, Portland, ca. 1854

"… inches in diameter and is associated with music teacher Theodore Ingalls King (1854-1906) of Portland and Washington D.C."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Dance

"… Heming, wife of an island minister, was his music teacher. Randal was honored to play a trumpet solo, “You Tell Me Your Dreams” for his eighth…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Baird's Quarry

"… group of Swan's Island students led by 3-5 grade teacher Kim Colbeth have been learning quarry history with their eyes, hands, and feet."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"Island teachers, like many small-town teachers of the time, had to be flexible to teach multiple grade levels at the same time due to the lower…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The Tea Room

"Clevie remarried after Mary, a Sunday school teacher, passed away in 1950. He married his second wife Erdine Kent Watling in 1954, and the couple…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The Crew

"She has been a teacher for 32 years here. She invented the Swan's Island Studies course over 25 years ago as a way to teach island students about…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"Island teachers have a unique challenge and opportunity in educating these small, mixed-level classes."

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"People with amazing musical talents play on the sound stages. There are many frustrating games that are fun and for a minimal price you can keep…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"The town looked for the best teachers, and the best teachers looked for the town; this created a perfect instance of complementarity."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Allies & Allegiance: Military comradery at the Centennial, 1920

"… including an exposition, several parades, a music festival, visiting dignitaries, and international ships in port."

Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"… Ezra Woodye, Caroline Yates, and Della Martin (teacher) X Blue Hill was founded in 1762. Two of the first permanent settlers were John Roundy…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ballard Hill School, Lincoln, ca. 1930

"Reed, 9th grade; Miss Josephine Briggs, Music Teacher; Mr. Wright. The morning exercises were performed by Mr. Wright."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 1 of 3

"His favorite subjects were music and ancient history. If you lived close to the school, you were allowed to go home to eat lunch."

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… and Germany as well as Maine and Canada, with musical works in all languages, chamber music, many-hands and multi-piano performances, and at some…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"… student council, drama club, chess club, various music clubs and a chorus, extra-curricular academic activities, and many, many, more."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… Aunt Mame growing up, including a shared love of music, photography, and dogs. Aunt Mame's house was a welcoming and nurturing place of fun and…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School

"… and kindergarten would be enlarged, a new art and music room added, and an all new kitchen and cafeteria."

Surry by the Bay - Surry Village School

"In 1937, formal music instruction began and students learned contra dancing and how to foxtrot and waltz."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"John’s Parish; and Judith Davis Kuhn, teacher and musical director for RAPPA (Rumford Association for the Performing Arts)."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"Teacher turn-over posed a problem of continuity in education. (Superintendent's Reports in Town Reports) During this time, health was also an issue."