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Keywords: Field Stone

Historical Items

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Item 12390

Field stone, 1728, Eastern Cemetery, Portland, 1966

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1966 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 12774

George H. Stone and Sons, Fort Fairfield, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1930 Location: Fort Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Item 55206

Entrance to Bates Drive, Fairfield, 1929

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: 1929 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 110501

Skylands, Mount Desert, 1922-2000

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1922–2000 Location: Mount Desert Client: Martha Stewart Architect: Landscape Design Associates

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Fallen Heroes: Maine's Jewish Sailors and Soldiers

Thirty-four young Jewish men from Maine died in the service of their country in the two World Wars. This project, including a Maine Memory Network exhibit, is meant to say a little something about some of them. More than just names on a public memorial marker or grave stone, these men were getting started in adult life. They had newly acquired high school and college diplomas, they had friends, families and communities who loved and valued them, and felt the losses of their deaths.

Exhibit

We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.

Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.

Exhibit

Wiscasset's Arctic Connection

Scientist, author and explorer Donald B. MacMillan established Wiscasset as his homeport for many of the voyages he made to the Arctic region starting in the early 1920s.

Site Pages

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Site Page

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

"The stone was drilled, blasted, and lifted out of the pit. One man “motions” sprang up wherever there was a small field of stone to be carved by an…"

Site Page

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

"Long-time residents remember playing ball in the 'field' behind the house, which is not officially part of the property but had space for two teams."

Site Page

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"… Swan’s Island fishermen became experts in their field. "From 1874 to 1889 Swan’s Island fishing vessels took either the first or second place every…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood

An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.

Story

Decontie and Brown's venture in high fashion design
by Decontie and Brown

Penobscot haute couture designs from Bangor

Story

The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona

Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.