Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 1 of 2

"… State Museum Martin's father, John Martin Sr., a native of Cromwell, England, who worked as a tailor in Ellsworth, died when his only child was 11…"

Mercy Hospital - People of Mercy - Page 1 of 2

"A native of New Brunswick, she enrolled in Madigan Memorial School of Nursing in Houlton in 1937 before taking vows in the Sisters of Mercy in 1944."

Early Maine Photography - The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection

"His thesis on his native Unity was published as the town’s official history in 1954. John and Sarah Williams Young, Hallowell, ca."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"After their initial scare by Captain Church's men, natives returned to Islesboro from the mainland to pick berries, dig for clams, pick sweet grass…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"And patriot Hopley Yeaton, native of New Hampshire and appointed by President Washington as the first officer of the Revenue Cutter Service, came to…"

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

"The program included a life-size nativity scene, and a stage for nightly performances. On the podium with the President for the lighting were: Mrs."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… seasonally in the area of Bath, no permanent Native American villages occupied the site. And, no settlements resulted from early European…"

Lincoln, Maine - Catholic Church

"The Native Americans were the first recorded people to have the religious faith of Catholicism in this area."

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

"… holidays, while others like Thanksgiving are native just to America. In school nowadays, holidays aren't celebrated as much."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"Perhaps F.B. Foss, a native of Surry, summarized the town's economic downturn best in two verses of a poem he wrote for the 1903 Centennial: Old…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Maine State documents and Proclamations

"We did similar things to the Native Americans here. And, frankly, ten years after Malaga Island was destroyed, the largest Ku Klux Klan rally in the…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - A Call to Temperance

"… and English, depicts the Devil giving Native Americans rum and whiskey. As in many temperance images, a mother and child plead father not to…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… pleasures and needs of island visitors and the native population. At mid-island the F. S. Pendleton and Company store existed for 100 years…"

Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"Web. 11 Apr 2013. Young, Susan. "Hailing a native son Bangor to rename middle school after Cohen." Bangor Daily News. 9 Dec 1997. Web."

Prince Memorial Library

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… M., Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry, 1830 – 1890, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1996."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… very fond of the woods and enjoyed studying the native plants, flowers, and wildlife. Presque Isle Historical Society Arthur Gould passed…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… and small boats, following the example of Native Americans. People traveled by streams, rivers, ponds, lakes and long tidal estuaries and bays."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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