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Music in Maine - Sacred Music

"Lyres hold books in place for musicians while marching in a band. Jewish Cantors Small communities of Jewish people lived in Maine during colonial…"

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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

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Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"… written by both Ben and Natalie Butler in their book, The Falls: Where Farmington, Maine, began in 1776 and in Thomas Parker’s, History of…"

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Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"… know it but they (the owners) knew by their books that things were going to happen. It just started to go right down hill. R.J."

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Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"… don’t know is that the fair described in the book is the Blue Hill Fair! E.B White lived just down the road in Brooklin. Even today, E.B."

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Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… down out of the skies and into the history books as the first Air Mail service landed in the field at the Hudson Farm."

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

"According to Peter Dow Bachelder in his book Ships and Maritime Disasters of the Maine Coast, the ship was the largest wooden sailing ship ever…"

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

"… and no homework, and we kept all our school books at school.” Throughout the next fifty years, homework cycled in and out of fashion, with its…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"Reprint. Salem, Mass.: Higginson Book Co., n.d. Originally published Brunswick, Maine: H.E. Mitchell Pub., 1904. Rowe, William Hutchinson."

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"Small’s book: “The amount of moral courage and Christian fortitude required for a landsman to get up out of a comfortable bed and struggle up on a…"

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

"… rights of newspapers, tourist guides and souvenir books of travel over 5,000 miles of rail and steamship lines."

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

"… produced coated papers for periodicals, catalogs, books, and commercial printing. Mead was also a major producer of paper products for schools and…"

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Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Maine State documents and Proclamations

"… 1911-1912.” The document was found on Google Books, a resource that wasn’t available a few years ago."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"More recently, numerous books, written by Ben and Natalie Butler recorded history of area neighborhoods."

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

"… in the community for the local elite and could be booked for a “reasonable fee” by those who wished to use it."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"According to several books, in 1846, William Rogers, John Patten, Jeremiah Robinson, Otis Kimball, and Caleb S."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"Shaw who sold stationary supplies, books and other random gifts (see receipt). The key person that has a connection with the building was Captain…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"In the early 1800's, Pond published a book against slavery. Another was Reverend Amory Battles. Battles was an abolitionist at the Unitarian Church…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Print. Lossing, Benson J. The Pictorial Field Book. New York: Harper Brothers, 1896. Print. Scott, Geraldin Tidd."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"The history books say the cold weather was most likely caused by the volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia during April of 1815."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"In our collection, we have a “Day Book” or ledger dating back to 1797. This ledger appears to track his business – some sort of store."

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"… others make wedding cakes, take pictures, write books, and create works of art. Recently, the town has seen another decrease in population."