Maine Memory Network

Guilford, Maine - Guilford Schools

"Both the grade school and high school were decked out with buntings and other festive decorations for the town of Guilford’s Centennial celebration."

John Bapst Memorial High School

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Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 1 of 3

"… clean; preparing a patient for operation, even for abdominal surgery; administering ether anesthesia by drop method; giving nursing care, post-op…"

Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 2 of 3

"… of Nursing Customs and Rules at Mercy Hospital School of Nursing Mercy School of Nursing students, Portland, 1977Northern Light Mercy…"

Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"William S. Cohen graduated from Bangor High in 1958 where he was named to an all-state high school basketball team and was inducted into the New…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 1 of 2

"… A (large school) division with its sports teams, even though their student population was always one of the smallest in the large school division."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Sports

"Sports High School Sports View a High School Sports Slideshow Sports, as in newspapers around the globe, occupied a prominent role in the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"Even though a new school was a great addition to the school system in Farmington, the school itself was nearly full at the time it was built."

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

"… Historical Society/MaineToday Media The Portland Evening Express ran a regular article called “We Have With Us”, and “With Us Today”, which…"

Guilford, Maine - SPORTS - Page 3 of 3

"… soccer, just because not a lot of other schools even had soccer yet. They played a seven game scehdule, winning four games and losing three."

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

"Even though each village has its own features and businesses, residents almost always have community ties in the next village."

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

"Even though Strickland's Mill is now shut down it played an important part in New Portland's history."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"The only school that has not burned is the current school on the High School land. In 1919 Stockholm decided to build a grade C high school."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 1 of 2

"… Like contemporary news coverage, the Portland Evening Express and Press Herald covered crime and disaster vehemently, and often promoted it on the…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Icons & Influencers

"… & Influencers: Celebrity Photographs from the Evening Express , 1920-1935 America’s obsession with celebrity is nothing new."

Guilford, Maine - SPORTS - Page 1 of 3

"Even though PCHS never won a state championship, they have won the league championships. It was hard to get into the championship because at that…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Maine Railroads

"… railroad that connected to other states and it even ran through Canada. Bangor & Aroostook Railroad Station, New Sweden, ca."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"… organized to conduct the affairs of the colony even before New Sweden became a plantation. In 1895 the colony of settlers in New Sweden became an…"

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"… businesses including a credit union arrived and even another great downtown fire, one which consumed a clothing store, caused little more than a…"

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"Twenty-one dollars was eventually raised, a school board elected, and the first school was kept in the loft of Capt John Bennett’s shed until the…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"Early in the 19th century, it even competed with Bangor, its neighbor to the north, for economic dominance in Penobscot County."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Eureka Hall, Stockholm

"And even a not so nice piece of our past--the KKK meetings were held there. At one time or another all these businesses were run by different people…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"And the Normal School would be the catalyst for improved education in the public sector. Farmington is a proud community – proud of their downtown…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Elusive Championship

"… what we now call the “Old Gym.” But there is an even older gym that Hampden Academy once used heavily."