Maine Memory Network

L. E. Norris, Hampden, ca. 1904

Contributed by: Hampden Historical Society Date: circa 1904 Location: Hampden Media: Photographic print

My Debt to Maine, Theodore Roosevelt, 1918

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1918-03-20 Location: Island Falls Media: Pencil on paper

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Elise Fellows White: Music, Writing, and Family

From a violin prodigy in her early years to an older woman -- mother of two -- struggling financially, Skowhegan native Mary Elise Fellows White remained committed to music, writing, poetry, her extended family -- and living a life that would matter and be remembered.

John Dunn, 19th Century Sportsman

John Warner Grigg Dunn was an accomplished amateur photographer, hunter, fisherman and lover of nature. On his trips to Ragged Lake and environs, he became an early innovator among amateur wildlife photographers. His photography left us with a unique record of the Moosehead Lake region in the late nineteenth century.

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"She did not mind because she loved the outdoors. She was able to afford going to college because of an inheritance received from her father and her…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake

"Visiting the island in Porter Lake is also fun. There is rope swing there. Porter Lake is one of the most popular public places in Strong."

My father's world - the old farm in Richmond, Maine
by Donald C. Cunningham

A story about my father and our family.

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down