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My Maine Stories
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The Journey Home
by Gina Brooks
I am a Maliseet artist from the St. Mary’s First Nation, my work is about our connection to the land
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History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
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The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona
Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.
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Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall
Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.
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Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life
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The Cup Code (working at OOB in the 1960s)
by Randy Randall
Teenagers cooking fried food in OOB and the code used identify the product and quantity.
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Thoughts of Freedom
by Raymond
Painting my thoughts and loves while incarcerated at Maine State Prison
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If You Knew My Story
by Anonymous (Maine State Prison)
A story about incarceration in Maine
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The Joys of Kayaking - Pam's Story
by Pam Ferris-Olson
Pam has kayaked in many special places but her fondest memories are being made on Casco Bay
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2020 Sheltering in Place Random Notes During COVID-19
by Phyllis Merriam, LCSW
Sheltering-in-Place personal experiences in mid-coast Maine (Rockland) during March and April 2020
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Black Is Beautiful
by Judi Jones
Gut-wrenching fear
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Peace in Maine
by Rebekah Tower
My story is about my family vacations to Maine when I was growing up.
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The Oakfield Inn
by Rodney Duplisea
This is a summarized article about the opening of the Oakfield Inn. It appeared in the Bangor Daily
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A Lifelong Romance with Retail
by George A Smith
Maine's once plentiful small retail stores.
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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.
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Tracers
by anonymous
tracers, bonding, and fixations
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Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR
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John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
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Reverend Thomas Smith of First Parish Portland
by Kristina Minister, Ph.D.
Pastor, Physician, Real Estate Speculator, and Agent for Wabanaki Genocide
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My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne
Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima
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The Wall
by Michael Uhl
What it means to have beaten the odds
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Growing up DownEast
by Darrin MC Mclellan
Stories of growing up Downeast
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An Asian American Account
by Zabrina
An account from a Chinese American teen during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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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