Maine Memory Network

Hell on the Rio Grande poem, Laredo, Texas, 1916

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1916 Location: Laredo Media: Print on paper

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World War I era camps, Laredo, Texas, 1916

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1916 Location: Laredo Media: Photographic print

World War I and the Maine Experience

With a long history of patriotism and service, Maine experienced the war in a truly distinct way. Its individual experiences tell the story of not only what it means to be an American, but what it means to be from Maine during the war to end all wars.

Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.