Maine Memory Network

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"Frank Green at 176 Broad Street on the west side of the Kenduskeag Stream. It spread among the wooden warehouses along Bangor’s working waterfront."

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 2 of 4

"I wish you could see some of the Bacon it is such green stuff. They take A Hog and split him lenghways and shave the bristles off and smoke him and…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

"… as they were called because they came in green, continued to be found on the walls of many classrooms for many years."

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"… Better Vermonters: The Eugenics Project in the Green Mountain State, 1999, University Press of New England, Hanover, N.H."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Bootleggers vs. Police

"… 1927Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Green River whiskey bottles hidden in Moxie cases, 1927 Seized at a Yarmouth Inn Collections of…"

Music in Maine - Country Music

"… Doane Katahdin Mountaineers, 1925 Courtesy of Bob Greene X Don Doane Sr.’s Katahdin Mountaineers, regarded as the first country band in New…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"Green Acres with Keepers Lodge, Farmington, ca. 1890 This was Harold Titcomb's home in Farmington on Orchard Street. The house still stands."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… from Cottage Street half way to the town green. By 1879 Bar Harbor had 30 hotels, a national reputation and telephone service linking four hotels…"

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"The girls would gather nuts, greens, roots and firewood. They also would help with the cooking and carrying of the household goods to the summer or…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"… the beginning of the Pageant, decorators spread a green dye on the ground to give the Ellipse a “fresh” look."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 3 of 4

"It was green with orange letters and said something like A Child's First Reader. On the first page we were introduced to Dickie Dare, who taught us…"

Caribou Public Library

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… Munsungan Lake and quarried high quality red, green, and gray chert (flint) which they used to make beautifully crafted “fluted” spear points."

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"… to the house and packed his things in his shabby, green suitcase. He kissed his mother, left the house, and got in the car."

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Otisfield Historical Society

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Colby College Special Collections

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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