Maine Memory Network

Rum, Riot, and Reform - A Call to Temperance

"… National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1883 Courtesy of William and Debra Barry X Father Matthew Plate White earthenware, ca…"

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"Opera houses hosted lectures, plays, live music, and movies, with many hosting actual operas, such as The Merry Widow in Lewiston and Faust in…"

Music in Maine - Music Makers

"… White, Skowhegan, ca. 1910Skowhegan History House Mary Elise Fellows White (1873-1953) noted in her autobiography that her family was musical…"

Music in Maine - Country Music

"… thirty years appearing in town halls and opera houses performing music, dance, and comedy in their act."

Music in Maine - Sacred Music

"… in Standish, likely the First Parish Meeting House, also called Old Red Church, built in 1804-1806."

Music in Maine - Community Music

"They were always playing music in the house. I liked the Blues music more than the Jazz. In my youth I became a Rolling Stones fan."

Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 1 of 2

"A daguerreotype of each of these portraits was made for family members. Stephen’s daguerreotype copy is part of the Wadsworth-Longfellow House…"

Parsonsfield-Porter Historical Society

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 4 of 4

"Portland, ME: Longfellow Press, 1953. Karr, Paul and Jeff Clark. "Oasis of Wilderness." Down East Magazine, September, 1995. Leamon, James S."

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow HW Longfellow at Nahant, 1850 Maine Historical Society This rare glass stereo view shows a beardless Henry Wadsworth…"

Maine Historical Society

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Great Cranberry Island Historical Society

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Jacob Abbott

"… Academy where one of his students was Henry Longfellow. In 1824, Jacob began as a tutor at Amherst College and was rewarded with a job as a…"

Early Maine Photography - Early Maine Photography at Maine Historical Society

"… Ellen, William Pitt Preble, and Stephen Longfellow, Portland, ca. 1853Maine Historical Society Maine Historical Society (MHS) has collected…"