Maine Memory Network

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Women Leaders and Temperance

"… of Henry Gartley, original from the Herbert Cary family A view of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union marching down Columbia Street in Bangor…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Drinking: Elegance and Debauchery

"It was owned by a Portland doctor and his family. X Coaster American, probably New York, 1855-1860 Silver and birds eye maple; silver…"

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 - Community Music

"Kemp Family Singers Kemp Family Singers broadside, Leeds, ca. 1895Maine Historical Society George Washington Kemp, Leeds, ca."

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 - Country Music

"There was a small family band called Stanhope’s Orchestra that played a few times a year at our local grange hall."

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…"

Music in Maine - Bluegrass Music

"… promoting bluegrass events around the State as family entertainment, providing workshops and educational opportunities, supporting local musicians…"

Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music

"1945Maine Historical Society The Breau family lived on a farm in Auburn where they kept two horses and a pony for “Lone Pine Junior,” the nickname…"

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"Aunt Lu, as she was called by the family, did a lot to improve our tribe through her notoriety at home and nationwide."

Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 1 of 2

"A daguerreotype of each of these portraits was made for family members. Stephen’s daguerreotype copy is part of the Wadsworth-Longfellow House…"

Parsonsfield-Porter Historical Society

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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow HW Longfellow at Nahant, 1850 Maine Historical Society This rare glass stereo view shows a beardless Henry Wadsworth…"

Early Maine Photography - Portland Photographers

"… of the children of Stephen and Mariana Longfellow, nieces and nephews of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow."

Maine Historical Society

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

"Portland, ME: Longfellow Press, 1953. Karr, Paul and Jeff Clark. "Oasis of Wilderness." Down East Magazine, September, 1995. Leamon, James S."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Jacob Abbott

"… Academy where one of his students was Henry Longfellow. In 1824, Jacob began as a tutor at Amherst College and was rewarded with a job as a…"