Maine Memory Network

Music in Maine - Music Makers

"He played clarinet with the American Cadet Band, and violin with the American Cadet Band Orchestra. Soren Bruns' Violin, ca."

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

"The mail had to be delivered to around 120 houses all around Stockholm from New Sweden. The Anderson Brothers Store is now the Stockholm Museum."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Landeen Family History

"They were married at their own house where my grandmother still lives. My great grandmother Annie died December 13, 1983 at the age of 94."

Music in Maine - Community Music

"In Maine, Sea shanties sung by sailors develop slow and fast structures depending on the task, from a few pulls on a rope to more detailed rigging of…"

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"Opera houses hosted lectures, plays, live music, and movies, with many hosting actual operas, such as The Merry Widow in Lewiston and Faust in…"

Music in Maine - Sacred Music

"… ran Tikva Records, a label specializing in Jewish American recordings in Manhattan, New York from the 1940s to the 1970s."

Music in Maine - Country Music

"… 1966 and1968, he joined the Buck Owens All American Music Show and appeared at the Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, and later as a regular member of…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Along the Waterfront

"… group went to a luncheon and conferences at the House Restaurant, visited the White House, and met with members of the Maine Congressional…"

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

"Since the Ellipse serves many purposes throughout the year, a cut tree rather than a living tree was used until 1972."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… began with the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolution in 1783; the treaty stated that the eastern boundary of the United States was the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"Upon the death of his father, Arthur headed west to Ohio to seek his fame and fortune. What he received instead were some great lessons in life as he…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"In the Maine Woods, Forest and Stream, The American Angler, Rod and Gun, and The American Sportsman magazines carried her articles about Maine…"

Music in Maine - Longfellow Family Music

"… House until her death in 1901, bequeathing the house and property to the Maine Historical Society to honor the memory of her brother, the poet…"

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

"… 1776, Betsy Ross, often known as the maker of the American Flag, reported that she had sewed the first American Flag."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Grand Army of the Republic

"Almost every veteran was enrolled, including five American presidents: McKinley, Harrison, Grant, Hayes, and Garfield. To be in the G.A.R."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 3 of 6

"The small village transitioned from a place where most of the residents were Savages into a residential community of middle age, wealthy retired…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"5.Frank Hodgdon, “The Way It Was,” American Journal, 8 November 1995. 6.Susan Dudley Gold, ed., Scarborough at 350: Linking the Past to the Present…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"So plentiful were lobsters that Native-Americans used them for crop fertilizer and fish bait, as well as food for themselves; early settlers…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"In 1870 they lived in a boarding house in Lewiston, and he worked in a mill. By 1880 they returned to the area to live in Strong."

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Final Vote

"… days later the bill passed on the floor of the House, 193-59.[29] Finally, after three decades of planning, organizing, lobbying and failure…"

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"Many rusticators lived on Parker Point and the creation of The Homestead boarding house provided incentive to spend long summers along Maine’s…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 1 of 4

"Maine’s Native Americans, the Abenakis, had been decimated by European disease. The original charter of Blue Hill stipulated that shares of land were…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Missouri Compromise: A Moral Dilemma

"… the 36°30' line.[33] Initiated by Speaker of the House Henry Clay, the Missouri Compromise, as it was known, was tough to swallow for many Mainers."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… more or less – 84 dwelling houses, 12 school houses, 14 meeting houses [among them the first congregational and baptist churches in blue hill] and…"