Maine Memory Network

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"

"… Public Schools offered daytime "Americanization" classes for adult and school-aged immigrants. Although organizations in Portland had provided…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"Mosher, John, No Greater Abomination: Ethnicity, Class, and Power Relations on Malaga Island, Maine, 1880-1912, 1991, Masters Thesis, University of…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - ABOUT US

"… of fifteen students involved in a variety of classes working towards their high school diploma."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Olof Nylander, 1864-1943

"Thank you to the Nylander Museum for showing our class your wonderful resources and allowing us to work with copies of your archives."

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - About the Project

"… Kate Philbrick and I taught, came into my radio class one day and said “Have you heard about this island near Phippsburg? It’s crazy. Malaga Island."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Coming of the Swedes, 1870-73

"… as did the adults who attended the weekly adult class. Dedication to the cause was his motivation to ski to the Jemtland section of New Sweden to…"

Music in Maine - Music Makers

"He played clarinet with the American Cadet Band, and violin with the American Cadet Band Orchestra. Soren Bruns' Violin, ca."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Man on the Street"

"Moy was quite an important figure in the class of 1901, Deering High School, if we are to judge from his record."

Maine's Road to Statehood - Maine in the 17th Century

"… conscious or malicious decision-making, second-class status remained a truism for Maine residents throughout the colonial period."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake

"… Strong School 7th and 8th Graders, 2011-2012 Class Picnic At Porter LakeStrong Historical Society Return to Student Research Porter Lake was…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About Us - Page 1 of 3

"Ben assisted teacher Crystal Knapp Polk with class mapping activities in the Strong Elementary School and wrote an exhibit on Cornelia "Fly Rod"…"

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

"… 1776, Betsy Ross, often known as the maker of the American Flag, reported that she had sewed the first American Flag."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"A substantial class gradient emerged, with natives at the bottom and wealthy, aristocratic cottage owners at the top."

Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 1 of 3

"Margaret Hinds Bell (class of 1942) was inspired by Kilfoil, her “mother’s cousin, and my ideal” to become a nurse and train at Mercy."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Student Research

"Our two classes feel like we have learned a great deal about our town from our research about this time period."

Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family

"Sylvia’s mother’s name was Mary, who was half white, half Native American. Sylvia lost both her parents at a young age and was later adopted by a…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Carolyn Stone

"… concentration, University of Maine at Farmington, Class of 2010 Carolyn A. Stone is the namesake for the Stone Wellness Community on the campus of…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1820 to 1865: Temperance and the Maine Law

"The growing middle class, still largely Yankee, enjoyed an occasional drink but came to view excessive drinking as a lower class, foreign, or youth…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Depression, War, and Fire

"In the 1950s, middle class families got in their cars and drove to “Vacationland.” The Development of an island-wide identity"

Lincoln, Maine - Jonathan Clay Jr.

"Responses from students in Mr. Koscuiszka's class can be viewed below: Haylea Lujan "Summarize the 'who, what, where, and when' of your topic"…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"Roberta Richards. Dist.# 7 - Classes were held in a building in the area now known as Pond Road near Norton Hill Road Dist.# 8 - Taylor Hill was…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"High School classes were taught in it. At that time, all the children in town had good schools and competent teachers, and many students were sent to…"

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 1 of 2

"… in part as follows: “On 4 July, Private First Class TRAFTON courageously and single handedly charged into a cave containing fifteen of the enemy…"