Maine Memory Network

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"… on the porch of his cottage at the popular summer resort of Nahant, Massachusetts. By the time the Philadelphia photographer Frederick Langenheim…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… of Ryder’s Cove and Hewes Point, the Dark Harbor summer people valued a more natural, rugged summer experience, including walking on the stone…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Summer Pleasures cont'd

"This was a time when the young people on the island got to meet people from the other sides of the island."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"Summers were spent living alone and winters with relatives in New Hampshire. In 1961, Litchfield celebrated his 90th birthday at his niece’s home in…"

Music in Maine - Music Education

"They provided intense music experiences to young people from the Eastern United States from 1931 to 1934, until the camp went bankrupt during the…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"… its waters, canoeing to the headwaters each summer, and living in villages farther up river each winter."

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"Summer - In the summer the Abenakis would travel to the coast to clam, fish, and collect seafood. They would sometimes have big seafood feasts, where…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… relieved when the family arrived the following summer. The next significant event that occurred in this area we call Skowhegan was the great…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Explore photos from the "Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold" documentary

"For several summers in the mid-2000s, a team of student archeologists under the guidance of professors Rob Sanford and Nate Hamilton from the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Railroad Station

"changed shifts. The Carlton Bridge continued to carry train traffic. Today, that train traffic includes summer tourists who ride the Maine Eastern…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Lincoln Block

"The ice would stay there until summer. When summer came, workers would take the ice down south by ship where they could use it to keep things cold…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"… With images from the Patten Free Library Summer Street, Bath, ca. 1907.Patten Free Library The Columbian Block, at 168 through 194 Front…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Patten Free Library

"… Library The Patten Free Library, located at 33 Summer Street in Bath, Maine, is architecturally unique."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Overview

"Over the summer, the team met a number of times to begin planning this extensive project that would eventually involve approximately 60 seventh…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection

"Gannett, to buy their newspapers in the summer of 1921. Gannett consolidated the two papers as the Portland Press Herald."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 2 of 3

"… even with winter homes "in town" and then summer cottages out at the Pool or towards Kennebunkport."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"Relatively open passenger cars were used during summer months, and closed cars were used during the remaining months."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4

"… for cattle and sheep and used the marsh for summer pasture. Many settlers were often assigned a marsh lot (or lots) for grazing their animals…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - General Henry Knox Museum

"Each summer the museum offers a two-week summer teacher institute free of charge to history educators, encouraged and advised by Pulitzer…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"Summer residents of Pine Point objected to crossing the double tracks, so the station was moved. Men and heavy equipment arrived about 9:00 A.M."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"… A post rider could ride 30 miles on a clear summer day; but in stormy winter or foggy spring weather, he could ride only a few miles a day."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Andrew Anderson

"He was a stock holder that worked in New York and he took a shine to my father. It was 1929- sometime in the summer- and he said to my father, “I…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Fires - 1849 to 1924

"Prison Fires - 1849 to 1924 In the summer and fall of 1849, due to severe changes of weather, the inmates suffered much sickness and mortality from…"

Skowhegan Community History - Skowhegan: "A Place To Watch"

"… pulpwood logs, which were floated downstream all summer long. Skowhegan Island X However, the heavy logging use clogged the river and took a…"