Maine Memory Network

Margaret and Grandpa, Skowhegan, ca. 1902

Contributed by: Margaret Chase Smith Library Date: circa 1902 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print

Grandfather clock, Pooler Mansion, Skowhegan, 1940

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1940-07-17 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print

Alterations to house for F. O. Conant, 1904

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1904 Client: F. O. Conant Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Churchill House on State St., Portland, 1928-1934

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1928–1934 Location: Portland Client: Major Gist. Blair Architect: Binford & Wadsworth

Student Exhibit: Logging on Kennebec River

I became interested in the Kennebec River log drive when my grandfather would tell me stories. He remembers watching the logs flow down the river from his home in Fairfield, a small town along the Kennebec River.

Student Exhibit: Bloomfield Academy

In 1842, the new Bloomfield Academy was constructed in Skowhegan. The new brick building replaced the very first Bloomfield Academy, a small wooden building that had been built in 1814 and served as the high school until 1871. After that, it housed elementary school classes until 1980.

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Marion Sanborn

"But my grandfather, like I said, my two grandfathers…I’ve never seen more patient people in my life."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Flora Brooks, Lying in Repose, 1922

"Her great-grandfather, Francis Tufts was an original settler, and the family continues to reside in the area."

Catching live bait with Grandfather
by Randy Randall

We never bought live bait for fishing. Grandfather caught all the minnows and shiners we needed.

Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall

Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.