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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Longfellow Era: 1807-1901

"He entered the Harvard Divinity School in 1839 and became an ordained minister. In 1882, he left a clergy position to start the biography of his late…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… Loeb Library Special Collections, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University “The United States have but this one short stretch of Atlantic…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"This was not a process people went to school to learn about or read a book on how to do. Rather, they learned from their fathers, mothers, aunts and…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… another; we were like a family.” Lubec High School Band, Washington, D.C., 1965Lubec Memorial Library The booming economy brought by the…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"Cohen School. Images are from the Bangor Historical Society. Who was Shep Hurd? Shep Hurd was born in Liberty, Maine."

Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976

"Cohen School Images from Bangor Public Library, Bangor Daily News and Bangor Historical Society The Penobscot River has brought wealth and prosperity…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Healthcare Center of Eastern and Central Maine - Page 1 of 2

"Cohen School. Images are from Eastern Maine Medical Center and St. Joseph Healthcare. Eastern Maine Medical Center History Beginnings After the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"… art teacher at the Rumford/Mountain Valley High School for 37 years. Currently the New Pennacook Arts Center, with rotating exhibits in the Tech…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"… en route to Dixfield Village, and a tavern and school were once located there. In 1860 the folks on Severy Hill built a huge cart body and put it…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"… son had attended Yale in the Arts and Harvard Law School and had been brought up in a pulp and paper family."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Church on the Hill

"… expanded space for parish functions and Sunday School classrooms, a kitchen, and restrooms. The Congregational "Church on the Hill," Dixfield…"

Mercy Hospital - McAuley Residence

"… social studies teacher at Catherine McAuley High School. In 1986, Sister Miriam was asked to change her sabbatical plans to undertake a research…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"… from Harvard in 1839 and from its Divinity School in 1846. From 1848 to 1882 he served Unitarian churches in Fall River, Massachusetts; Brooklyn…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"… at the Law School of Yale University includes full text versions of all the essential treaties and many diplomatic documents related to the…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"Lubec’s small but highly skilled school band provided music while the Navy destroyer John Paul Jones was anchored in the harbor."

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… his children and Johnson’s walked together to school. Starting under Larrabee in 1934, Howard “Bob” Gray raised a large family in the keepers’…"

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"He went on to become a respected school teacher in the Philippines where he authored a history of the Islands."

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

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

Music in Maine - Community Music

"… and the New England Folk Festival as well as schools statewide for students from kindergarten through college age."

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Colby College Special Collections

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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.