Maine Memory Network

Vonn "John" Volmer, Millinocket, ca. 1913

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1913 Location: Millinocket Media: Photographic print

Boys cooling off, Cape Elizabeth, 1979

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1979-06-18 Location: Cape Elizabeth Media: Photographic print

Assessor's Record, Storage, Somerset Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Portland Stove Foundry Company Use: Storage - Cooling Bunkers

Meshach P. Larry: Civil War Letters

Meshach P. Larry, a Windham blacksmith, joined Maine's 17th Regiment Company H on August 18, 1862. Larry and his sister, Phebe, wrote to each other frequently during the Civil War, and his letters paint a vivid picture of the life of a soldier.

Ice: A Maine Commodity

Maine's frozen rivers and lakes provided an economic opportunity. The state shipped thousands of tons of ice to ports along the East Coast and to the West Indies that workers had cut and packed in sawdust for shipment or later use.

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …next came the artists and rusticators.

"Hoping that the “cool waters of Eden” might invigorate body and soul, vacationers, referred to as rusticators, soon followed the artists."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Loading ice, Presque Isle Stream, 1946

"Many of these ice blocks eventually were used to cool Bangor and Aroostook Railroad refrigerator cars for shipping potatoes."

Ogunquit Beach Sonnet
by Shannon Schooley

Sonnet written for school when I was 12 years old.

A Smart Horse
by Lynn Peasley Sanborn

The horse brings the hay home while the boys are swimming.