Maine Memory Network

Missionary Conference, Ocean Park, 1912

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: 1912 Location: Ocean Park Media: Photographic print

John Bapst, Bangor, ca. 1860

Contributed by: John Bapst Memorial High School Date: circa 1860 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print

Missionary Society M.E. Church property, Maine Conference Women's Home, East End, Long Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Missionary Society M.E. Church Use: Italian Fresh Air Camp

Missionary Society of M.E. Church property, Maine Conference Women's Home, off Island Avenue, Long Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Missionary Society of M.E. Church Use: Shed

Margaret Payson Waterman monument, Gorham, 1928

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1928 Location: Gorham Client: John A. Waterman Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Galen C. Moses house, Bath, 1901

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1901 Location: Bath Client: Galen C. Moses Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Father John Bapst: Catholicism's Defender and Promoter

Father John Bapst, a Jesuit, knew little of America or Maine when he arrived in Old Town in 1853 from Switzerland. He built churches and defended Roman Catholics against Know-Nothing activists, who tarred and feathered the priest in Ellsworth in 1854.

La St-Jean in Lewiston-Auburn

St-Jean-Baptiste Day -- June 24th -- in Lewiston-Auburn was a very public display of ethnic pride for nearly a century. Since about 1830, French Canadians had used St. John the Baptist's birthdate as a demonstration of French-Canadian nationalism.

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"… archives the 2009 project at Maine Historical Society and on Maine Memory Network. The site was previously found at malagaislandmaine.org."

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"Phippsburg Historical Society, Stories of Phippsburg, Maine, Vol. 1, 1993. Phippsburg Historical Society, Phippsburg, Fair to the Wind, 1995, Penmor…"

Mali Agat (Molly Ockett) the famous Wabanaki "Doctress"
by Maine Historical Society

Pigwacket Molly Ockett, healing, and cultural ecological knowledge

Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey

Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics