Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall

"The family home was behind the family's business space. Next to the family home was the business of James B."

Lincoln, Maine - Masonic Hall

"The hall also held a pool hall, family theater, and a gymnasium in which they had basketball games and boxing matches."

Music in Maine - Longfellow Family Music

"Members of the Longfellow family created and used manuscript song pages to entertain family and guests, including songs popular in the 1750s and…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Market Hall, Bangor, 1846

"Market Hall, Bangor, 1846 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor…"

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

"Eureka Hall, Stockholm Eureka Hall X This building is now known to all of us as a nice family, sit-down restaurant in downtown Stockholm, Maine."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Caring For Our Families and Friends

"Caring For Our Families and Friends From the first European settlement on Swan’s Island, written records show that the community has financially…"

Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music

"… Music Hall of Fame by Ken Brooks, Board Chair, Hall of Fame Inductee 2012 Maine Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum Click to learn more about…"

Music in Maine - Bluegrass Music

"Joe serves on the board of the Hall of Fame. We are individually founding members of the Bluegrass Music Association of Maine; Nellie serves as…"

Music in Maine - Country Music

"… played a few times a year at our local grange hall. Their instruments were horns and drums, and their music, for the most part, was the big band…"

Music in Maine - Community Music

"Grange Music Franklin Grange Hall, Bryant Pond, ca. 1892Maine Historical Society 'State of Maine, My State of Maine,' 1913Maine Historical…"

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"… community meeting spaces, theaters, town halls, and granges. A 1991 study showed at least 66 opera houses existed in Maine, from Presque Isle’s…"

Music in Maine - Sacred Music

"The family, including five sons, moved to Maine in 1946 where Zimelman worked as a cantor at Shaarey Tphiloh in Portland."

Music in Maine - Music Education

"Family and school bands and encouraged children to learn how to play a musical instrument and to perform in front of audiences."

Music in Maine - Music and Television

"For fifteen years, teens and their families gathered around the TV to watch Dave Astor on Saturday nights."

Music in Maine - Music Makers

"… (1873-1953) noted in her autobiography that her family was musical, saying that her father, “played the violin, and though self-taught, he had a…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"He then lent his diving suit to A.S. Hall. Hall went back to New Meadows and talked the engineer, Mr."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"A brick Town Hall was begun in 1837 at the intersection of Centre and Water Streets, the current site of the Grant Building."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block

"In 1926, the Masons moved from the Masonic Hall in the Ledyard Block to the new Masonic Temple at 788 Washington Street."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders At Play

"… from Maine, gather and perform in the Odd Fellows Hall for three nights usually in early August. Sweet Chariot musicians on a windjammer…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro to pages 47-90

"… the Hampden Town Hall, and dances at Temperance Hall and Dolan Hall in Bangor. Martin also writes profiles and provides photos of: Samuel R."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Resources

"Holt, Alfred T., 2000, “Bath Families of the 19th Century.” Longley, Diane G. and Whitney, Arlene L., 1996, “The People’s History of Bath…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block

"… angry mob to stop the destruction of a Catholic family's home. With his brother, William Moses, they both became wealthy business men who financed…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"… was part of the important, ship building Patten family. These people are important because their businesses lasted so long and they helped to make…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"The entire Palmer family had a long tradition of running dry goods stores in Bath. After the short-lived establishment of Gershom Palmer, William P."