Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… and presaged a period of increased mobility and human population growth. Small chipped stone arrow points mark the arrival of bow and arrow…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - "Good the more communicated, the more abundant grows" : The Thursday Club

"… training of power; and the working of a spirit of human solidarity, a comprehension of the continuity of life: its universal character and…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - HISTORY

"… fertility and abundance, it is no wonder that humans have lived and flourished here for as long as man has walked these lands--about 12,000 years…"

Music in Maine - MAKE

"… are some of the oldest instruments created by humans. The melodies of birdsong and woodpeckers pounding on trees inspired Wabanaki peoples to…"

Music in Maine - Sacred Music

"Humans around the world use sacred sounds to connect with a higher being, to advance beliefs, give praise, and to inspire others to join in…"

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"… context and I believe that through creative frequencies, we can begin to heal humanity and evolve to new levels of love, compassion and wellness."

Music in Maine - Music in Maine

"Music in Maine Music is something we share as humans—non-verbal forms of storytelling and expressions of beauty and emotions through sound."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4

"… Water Act was passed, and the Department of Human Services required residents to boil their drinking water."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners

"… Maine Historical Society received a $341,935 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant (HCRR) from the National Endowment for the…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - After the War: The First Victory for Separationists

"… majority are to be found in the deception of the human heart. The heart is deceitful above all things, and I may add, desperately wicked." By…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home

"… represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities; and adheres of the NEH’s Code of Ethics related to Native Americans. X"

Historic Hallowell - This won't hurt a bit!

"… made use of it and was the first American physician, be it known, who applied the vaccine virus to the arm of a human subject in this country.""

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 1 of 5

"Treaty of Washington boundary map, 1842Maine Historical Society Many overlapping authorities had strong claims in this borderland, starting, of…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - A Call to Temperance

"853 X Triumph of Humanity published in The Napoleon of Temperance: Sketches of the Life and Character of the Hon."

Historic Hallowell - Whaling

"The United Nations Conference of the Human Environment at Stockholm adopted a ten year moratorium on commercial whaling to allow the whale stocks to…"

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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… works such as Thomas Brown’s Philosophy Of The Human Mind and Inquiry in the Relation of Cause and Effect."

Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"… response to one of the most lethal pandemics in human history. The global Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 killed between 50 and 100 million people…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Of The Arts Era

"… characterization; it has got to go deeper into human life and human feeling.” Audiences loved her."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… not by the hand of Mother Nature, but by human intervention. The people of Lincoln called on their perseverance and civic pride to once again…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… out-of-state buyers started purchasing them for human consumption. With this increased demand came more intense pressure for a direct railroad line…"