Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"So, in 1968, Sears Roebuck left Bath and opened a new location in Cook's Corner, marking the end of a very well-respected store in Bath."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"Dunbar, Henry M. Spelman, hired cook William Breyant, and hired boatman Orrin Donnell (of Sullivan, Maine), sailed Downeast from Boston."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… many tasks at home of farming, child rearing, cooking, and caring for the sick, elderly, and dead."

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 1 of 4

"I shall send you A drawing of our cook tents , Camps, etc. with this to give you an idea of our mode of living."

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Huntress

"Aaron Huntress drawing by Sarah Cook X If the school was never built, most of the people probably wouldn’t have lived here."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4

"… Sir Thomas Jocelyn and his second wife Theodora Cooke, was born in England in 1606. He was educated at Cambridge, receiving his degree in 1623; and…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"… engines of each paper machine, dry the paper, cook the pulp, and heat the buildings found a need for a new and modern steam plant."

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… and blocks had no central heat, just a large cook stove with copper hot water tank in the kitchen."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Healthcare Center of Eastern and Central Maine - Page 2 of 2

"… Public Library Special Collections Librarian Bill Cook Teaches W.S.C.S. 7th Grade Students X W.S.C.S. Students Creating St."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"… new mill began on November 9, 1901 with the first cook of soda pulp and on November, 17 for the sulphite pulp."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"So I started cooking huge things like chop suey, or anything that you could stir the frozen vegetables into."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… city homes, preferring to rely on islanders as cooks, interior home workers and nursemaids for children. F.S."

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"Early Railroads in Bangor By William Cook, Archivist/Special Collections Librarian, Bangor Public Library Knickerbocker Express, ca."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… from weirs, transported them to the factories, cooked the sardines and sealed the cans. Until child labor laws were instituted in the 1930s…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"Sardine factory, Lubec, 1910Lubec Historical Society After the herring were cooked for 15 to 30 minutes in a rotary oven with the flakes on moving…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"After cooking to the consistency of molasses, it was strained to skim off all remaining bark and twigs to then leave the cooked resin."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… Bar: The Indian Canoe Routes of Maine, David Cook) It is very clear that Farmington’s Sandy River had for “ … sometime in the not remote past…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… Lippitt, Curator, Bangor Historical Society; Bill Cook, Special Collections Librarian, Bangor Public Library; Lori Patterson, School Library Media…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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