Maine Memory Network

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"He graduated from Lisbon Falls High School in 1966, and he is a graduate of the University of Maine."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"The graduates of Snow’s school found it easy to get teacher positions in Maine or Massachusetts. Maine would later establish normal schools in…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… 1883-1884, Loeb Library Special Collections, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University “The United States have but this one short stretch of…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"It held countless Morse graduations, benefits, and celebrations. It was once visited by nationally recognized actress Georgia Cayvan, who had been…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Meet Blue Hill's Project Team

"… develops self-reliance, and prepares its graduates for a purposeful life in an ever-changing world."

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 1 of 2

"He graduated in June of 1940. On December 11, l942, with the country embroiled in World War II, he answered the call to duty and enlisted in the US…"

Lincoln, Maine - Gary Gordon

"He graduated from Mattanawcook Academy in 1978. At the age of 18, Gordon joined the U.S. Army as a member of the First Special Forces Operation…"

Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware

"… school at Union University at Albany, N.Y.; he graduated in 1875. After his law degree, he built his hardware and tin shop in the same building as…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"… that had been on Ross Road, at the high school graduation in the Town Hall. He continued to play at the high school for over fifty years…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 4 of 4

"After Homer’s graduation from high school, his father arranged an apprenticeship for him with a commercial lithographer in Boston."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"He was appointed to West Point and graduated in 1869 as a 2nd Lieutenant in the US 7th Cavalry Regiment."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"After graduating from eighth grade, Swan’s Island’s students either found jobs or went to the mainland for high school."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"… Dixfield schools had no auditorium before 1970, graduations, plays, prize speaking, proms and all manner of school productions were held at the…"

Early Maine Photography - The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection

"… followed by Bates College, from which he graduated in 1940. That year he began public school teaching, which was interrupted by service in the U.S…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Politics and Enforcement

"Henry A. Reynolds (1839-1922), a Bangor-born graduate of Bowdoin and Harvard colleges who became an alcoholic and a founder of the Red Ribbon Reform…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Quenching the Thirst

"Portland-born Longfellow, a Bowdoin College graduate, was world famous for his poetry. Though not an abuser of ardent spirits, Longfellow frowned on…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… Hilltop House to help fund his college and post-graduate education and the college education of his brother Ralph."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"… Andover Mass, and later attended Bowdoin College, graduating in 1882. He married Annie Smith in Bedford Mass."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Hampden Academy

"… the need for sporting events, dances, and graduation ceremonies to be held at the town hall."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"When we had graduation there were 32 other students in my class so there weren’t many kids going to school back then like there is now."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… and this hall hosted the annual eighth grade graduation. Epworth Hall and Seaside Hall also housed community events."

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

"… School was built in 1969, with the first class graduating in the Spring of 1970. Prior to that date, high school students in Rumford attended…"

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"At 18, Nordica graduated from the New England Conservatory and began performing in America and Europe."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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