Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 2 of 4

"In high school, there were meals already prepared. In home economics, they would help with the cooking during spare time, doing things such as…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… by Miss Evelyn Randlett, who was Islesboro High School's valedictorian that year. The new boat began running on June 27, 1936 but it quickly became…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The Crew

"… moved here in 1976 after she graduated from high school. After two years at Bates College, Candi married and settled in on Swan's Island to raise a…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"They learned poetry and performed plays. Future school teachers could begin training as school juniors. The pay, by today's standards, was low."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Ocean View Hotel

"… come down once a year on the steamboat and they’d play, come up and play different, you know, their instruments and everything."

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

"Prior to the ferry service, this meant attending boarding school, or boarding with other families in the Rockland and Mount Desert Island area."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… Society Shipbuilding Seafaring enterprises played a major role in Surry's economy during the nineteenth century."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 2 of 3

"… hall in town where he would go after school to play pool or the pinball machine. There was a drug store called Rexol."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"… attack from the British, many from the town played an active role in the struggle for independence."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 2 of 2

"… as a dairy farm inspector while my grandpa was in high school. Albert was old enough to help his father do the inspections once a month."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"Southwest High School (later Pemetic High) played in the old Masonic Building until 1927 when it burned down."

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"People with amazing musical talents play on the sound stages. There are many frustrating games that are fun and for a minimal price you can keep…"

Music in Maine - Bluegrass Music

"… 1946 to 1948, while still in high school, Hawkes played school functions and for organizations in the greater Portland area."

Music in Maine - Music and Television

"… what she called “the funny songs.” Deering High School student Willie Stewart played football, ran track, and was a regular on the Dave Astor Show."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Dreamland and Liberty

"… tourists visited Bath they would want to see a play or a motion picture (in later years) at the Dreamland."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville

"Children were safe to play anywhere, sliding down the streets in winter, exploring the surrounding woods, and playing in the brook in summer."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… the most populated city in the area, Presque Isle plays a pivotal role in the lives of the region’s residents and continues to be the HUB of…"

Lincoln, Maine - Frederick A. Edwards

"Frederick A. Edwards playing bagpipes drawing by Christine Twitchell X Kyle A. McDonough "What if Frederick A."

Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 1 of 2

"Twelve Lubec school children drowned that day, June 19, 1936. A summer day, after school ended for the year, created for picnics and the usually…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"Emily Reynolds and her husband Bill Dolliver built the Pastime Theatre in Northeast Harbor in 1913. In summers the Pastime also hosted plays…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Of The Arts Era

"… the Vienna Philharmonic for his peculiar style of playing, Kreisler was picked up by the Berlin Philharmonic a few years later, launching him to…"

Music in Maine - Rock and Roll, Punk, and Elvis

"… introduced the big performers on stage, local high school garage bands would often serve as opening acts."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"Cohen School) and Bangor High School. She knew she wanted to be a writer and editor at a very young age."

Lincoln, Maine - World War I

"… just be a small fraction, but our town’s people played a part in it. We didn’t start sending troops in until 1917, because that’s the year the…"