Maine Memory Network

“I got around” and “I told a lie”
by anonymous

Marine Corporal Stanley Gunn recalls his training locations and post war Memories

My Peace on Earth
by Dana Eidsness

She left Maine for school and vowed she'd never move back.

Summers on Peaks
by Anna Greenfield

Memories of being a summer visitor and visiting Peaks Island

Maine family across the USA
by James Burton Wengler (Robinson)

A Maine family scattered across the USA

The Equal Freedom to Marry
by Mary L Bonauto

Marriage Equality, Maine, and the U.S. Supreme Court

Love is greater than peace, For peace is founded upon love
by Parivash Rohani

My journey from Iran to Maine

How I broke the mold for women to serve in the military
by Mary D. McGuirk

My life and career as a USAF Nurse

Welcome home Sgt. Cunningham
by Donald C Cunningham

It was great to be back in Maine.

A Note from a Maine-American
by William Dow Turner

With 7 generations before statehood, and 5 generations since, Maine DNA carries on.

From Chinese Laundress to Mother of the Year
by Dr. Andrea Louie

Toy Len Goon's granddaughter recounts her immigration to the US and becoming Mother of the Year.

Hooch Mum and my Vietnam service
by Jim Barrows

A poem about being a medic, saving Vietnamese people and babies. Sometimes we trusted too much.

In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood

An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down