Maine Memory Network

Life on a Tidal River - Fashion of the '40s

"1949 Green printed dressBangor Historical Society During the 1940s fashion just wasn't the same as it is today."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Original Mount Desert Island Pilot Project (2006)

"… Class Bar Harbor: Building of Arts By: Josh Howie Green Mountain Railway By: Spenser Simis The Bryants and the Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor…"

Historic Hallowell - The Stevens Training Center Serenaders

"Click on the titles. The World Outside  2:43 Green Fields  3:41 He   3:03 He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands   2:56 Climb Ev’ry Mountain   2:50…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early 1800s

"… in 1806, merchants and traders, including Ballard Green, Eli Merrill, John Paine, and Patrick Keegan continued to carry on extensive business in…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin apple tree, Bangor, ca. 1862

"… and soundness." Martin found it "a specie of greening with a red cheek the flesh when ripe a juicy tender tart very sharp." In 1862, the tree was…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1890-1900 - Page 1 of 3

"… puffed upper sleeve, as does the collection's celadon green dress with a figured pink silk bodice and spreading collar trimmed with pink sequins."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 4 of 4

"… with short frill sleeves, boat neck, and a wide green waist sash, features a flat front skirt that spreads expansively to the rear."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Bob Marley

"Marley played an ignorant yet comical Detective Greenly. Marley and the cast mostly filmed in Boston, Massachusetts and one time in Ontario, Canada."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators on the Rise

"Green Mountain RailroadJesup Memorial Library Bring half-worn winter garments, with boots ditto, to be prepared for tramping and excursions."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding During and after the Civil War - 1861 to 1900

"… original location on Water Street at the foot of Green Street. Ship Samuel Watts, Georges River, Thomaston, Maine 1870Thomaston Historical…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 3 of 4

"… one of which is a very wearable lightweight gray/green rayon crepe, with small yellow printed flowers, capped sleeves, and a high waist with ties…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"This green space became known as Meeting House Park. (And now you know that Church Street is named for John Church and not the North Church at the…"

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"Engineer Green was driving a north bound train when he struck the cars waiting to be picked up. Green was caught in the debris."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"It was green.” Off-season, Ted worked in the woods and turned natural materials into items to sell: “My dad used to do quillwork when I was a boy –…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"… first settlers of Byron were Samuel Knapp, Jonas Green, James Bawn, John Thomas, J. Stockbridge, Richard Morrell, and Abraham Reed."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 1 of 3

"One, labelled "FELIX, Portland," is a green double knit with a mandarin collar, long sleeves, rolled toggle neck closure, square diamanté buckled…"

Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March

"… that the boat builders had to use fresh, or green, wood to build them. The wood was still wet so the planks on the bottom of the bateaux didn't…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"… creating colorful curtains of blue, red, and green. Wabanakis often camped near a narrow stretch of shallow coastal water where they built a weir…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"Green. The smoke rising from the buildings meant herring were being processed. In 1959 Arthur McCurdy, acquired the “stand,” as people termed the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"… are the seasonal weather conditions, mosquitoes, green-headed flies and midges that bother diggers on the flats."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 1 of 4

"… marsh, “a world of many different creatures as green crabs scurry among the shaded plant stalks, marsh wrens weave the grass blades into swaying…"

Abbe Museum

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Windham Historical Society

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block

"… bricks that make up the outer facade are painted green, yellow, and tan. The Church Block is a three-story building."