Maine Memory Network

Skowhegan Community History - Skowhegan: "A Place To Watch"

"By the late 1960s, state and federal regulations virtually put an end to a century and a half of rough and tumble business."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 3 of 4

"… schools and service operations continued into the 1960s.(3) Remembrance Joseph Snow, a Scarborough resident, was very active in early aviation."

Hamlin Memorial Library and Museum

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Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 1 of 3

"… and the program remained all female until the 1960s.) When Ruth Attean graduated in 1935, the school had 36 residents."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4

"In the late 1950s and 1960s, Merle Grindle, Jr. and other members of the town's Chamber of Commerce mounted a sustained effort to attract doctors…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… a massive urban renewal project in the early 1960s, Sears and its chain stores in Bath were left without enough facilities and parking."

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

"From here on until the mid 1960s, the Savage family and neighborhood of Asticou dove head first into and played a key role in the hospitality…"

Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 3 of 3

"In the 1950s and 1960s, Mercy developed affiliations with Seton Psychiatric Institute in Baltimore, and Children’s Hospital in Washington, D.C., for…"

Music in Maine - Bluegrass Music

"… had a hit, Casco Bay, in 1965.Starting in the 1960s, Cox inspired musicians to play bluegrass by providing lessons, formally and informally, and by…"

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

"… of its red aluminum siding installed in the 1960s) on the former site of the big barn and he and his family moved in and began to live in Asticou…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 3 of 5

"As the end of the 1960s approached, it became obvious that the current high school building was not going to meet the demands of the district because…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"… from the cliff walk around the Neck until the 1960s. Howard H. Middleton Howard W. Middleton shipwreck, Scarborough, August 10…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"… teachers kept order at Oak Hill Primary in the 1960s. They told us to “sit up straight and fold your hands.” Nowadays discipline is much different…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 4 of 4

"… Rodney Laughton recalls school life in the 1960s. “We had no backpacks and no homework, and we kept all our school books at school.” Throughout the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"… School One Team In the late 1950s and into the 1960s leaders of the towns on MDI discussed consolidating the Island’s high schools."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"… families had a large dairy on Sligo Road into the 1960s. North Yarmouth’s last dairy operation, Norman and Marion Reed's Cedar Spring Farm, closed…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"By the late 1960s, his collection was overflowing his own as well as borrowed barns around southern Maine."

Music in Maine - Rock and Roll, Punk, and Elvis

"Our love of 1960s jazz music led to several improvisational instrumental tunes such as Alley-Pre-A-Toric, I Tried to Stop but Erupted, and Land of…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… of a different type impacted Lincoln in the 1960s—caused not by the hand of Mother Nature, but by human intervention."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… across the United States, the decade of the 1960s for Bangor would prove to be an exciting but troubling era."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"And in the late 1960s, Farmington experienced another change - consolidation. Farmington joined surrounding towns to become what we know as SAD #9…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… acres of farmland were purchased in the mid-1960s to be cleared and leveled for an airport and airstrip. There was a designated airport manager."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"During the 1960s, a formal urban renewal proposal that would have turned the downtown into an open-air shopping mall was rejected, with major…"