Maine Memory Network

Saco-Lowell apprentice banquet, Biddeford, 1938

Contributed by: Biddeford Mills Museum Date: 1938 Location: Biddeford Media: Photograph Print

Indenture contract for Samuel Perkins of Arundel, 1805

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1805 Location: Arundel Media: Ink on paper

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A Tale of Two Sailmakers

Camden has been home to generations of fishermen, shipbuilders, sailmakers, and others who make their living through the sea. The lives of two Camden sailmakers, who were born nearly a century apart, became entwined at a small house on Limerock Street.

Student Exhibit: Medicine in Times Past

Inspired by Dr. Greenleaf Wilbur's medical box at the Skowhegan History House, this exhibit highlights some Mainers in the medical field of the past and the stories they had.

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"A young boy's indenturePrince Memorial Library Apprentices and Servants The Overseers were empowered to bind out, or place into apprenticeship, the…"

Historic Hallowell - Initiative and Self-Improvement

"Mostly apprentices, they met one night a week after working a 12-hour day, and wrote compositions, essays, reports and poems, performed dialogs…"

Masters and apprentices
by Theresa Secord

Wabanaki basket makers learn to weave by apprenticing with master artists.

Keeping Dance and Music Alive
by Cindy Larock

Cindy Larock's involvement in the traditional music and dance scene in Maine for over 40 years.