Maine Memory Network

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - White's Graded School Series, Complete Arithmetic book, 1870

"White's Graded School Series, Complete Arithmetic book, 1870 Contributed by Farmington Historical Society Description Complete Arithmetic…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Thomas White Dry Good Emporium, Bangor, 1864

"The items on the sidewalk are a bale of soldiers' blankets and a bale of cotton warp. View additional information about this item on the Maine…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarbrough Middle School

"Scarborough Middle School has more than 800 students in grades 6-8. Its philosophy is based on the "school-within-a-school" concept."

Music in Maine - Community and School Marching Bands

"'The Purple and White,' Deering High School, 1914Maine Historical Society Film of band festival, Portland, ca."

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.

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

"By that time the school had one official school, this was in the Prouts Neck section of Black Point."

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

"… be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field representing a new Constellation."…"

Music in Maine - Country Music

"Later called the Katahdin Mountaineers, they played for over thirty years appearing in town halls and opera houses performing music, dance, and…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Meet the Team

"Each team has brought a unique compliment of strengths and resources to the MCHP partnership in support of the guiding principles of life long…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Weighing the big trout, Mill Site, 1891

"From left are Sam Lake, E. B. White, Frank Bryson. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Presque Isle Congregational Church

"It was a plain white building with a bell tower and forty-four pews. The total cost of the church was 4,750 dollars."

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 - Native Americans

"… Aroostook County, except perhaps after 1790 when white settlers along southern Maine (then part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts) and New…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"By the 1920s, the schools had formed a school orchestra, agricultural clubs, a senior fair and drama production, public speaking contest, and a…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 1 of 3

"When they saw people playing and rolling around in the cold powder, my parents thought they were absolutely crazy."

Skowhegan Community History - About the Project

"One teacher found the scrapbook of Elise Fellows White, a child violin prodigy from Skowhegan who, in the 1880s, played in Boston at the age of ten…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"4, 1782 and was the first white child born in the valley. Stephen built his first barn in April 1785 and his framed house in 1788."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 3 of 4

"When it was time for kids to come in a teacher would stand in the doorway and ring a bell unless the school had a bell tower."

Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"In 1772, the first white settlement homes were built on or near the island. The welcoming of houses brought the rapid growth of mills."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 3 of 4

"This school, which opened on 8 April 1930, was the first in the nation to offer a campus-like flying school."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"That home later became the Hotel Strong. Jeremy also built a mill, called Porter’s Mill, which made excelsior and other wood products."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Bangor and Aroostook GP-38, Presque Isle, 1991

"Note the white lines and numbers that were added to an earlier test scheme. Pictured with engine 94 is young rail enthusiast, Frederick Asam."

Historic Hallowell - Seaport on the Kennebec

"… clapboards, hogsheads and barrel staves, white oak capstan bars destined for Boston or Bristol or Jamaica."

Historic Hallowell - The Information Call Script

"GABBY: OKAY, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, MRS. PERKINS. MELISSA: YOU SURE ARE WELCOME GABBY: NEXT COULD YOU HEAR THE CYCLONE WHEN IT WAS COMING TOWARDS…"