Maine Memory Network

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

"… stopping at stations in Scarborough and other towns on its way to South Berwick where it connected with the Boston & Maine."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 1 of 2

"… teams of the 1970’s that really put the town “on the map” with its sports prominence. In a recent Bangor Daily News farewell to the Auditorium…"

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"… learn more about Maine's Opera Houses Many Maine towns in the 19th and early 20th centuries had an “opera house,” used as multi-purpose community…"

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

"… for the amount of money they will bring into the town, but we should welcome them for their social qualities."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"… of older folks and young ones to came from Down Town. A violin player played for dancing – a jolly time, and it smelled so good – lots of hay…"…"

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"The performances caused an intermingling of town residents and the rusticators. When the Blue Hill Hospital burned down in 1929, the Blue Hill Inn…"

Blue Hill, Maine - The Musical Culture of Blue Hill

"… makes up so much of the creative outlet in this town. 1900-1920: Kneisel Hall: Kneisel Hall was established in 1902 by conductor Franz Kneisel."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"… homes throughout New England and surrounding towns. They had to be accommodated with boarding houses, and the management decided that they must…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Taverns, People, and Scenes

"In many of Maines small towns and cities, taverns were the center of social and political life. William McLellan Sr., Portland, ca.1800Maine…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… extending from Cottage Street half way to the town green. By 1879 Bar Harbor had 30 hotels, a national reputation and telephone service linking…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"Sweetser, Phyllis Sturdivant. Cumberland, Maine in four centuries. Cumberland, Maine: Town of Cumberland, 1976. Text by Thomas C. Bennett"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Explore photos from the "Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold" documentary

"… 1900’s, the state of Maine, including costal towns like Phippsburg, looked to tourism and development as way to dig out of the state’s economic…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"The waterfronts of both towns provided the perfect location for the industry, and a working landscape of canneries, smokehouses, and other businesses…"

Music in Maine - Community Music

"Sometimes Grange halls served as town library and offered adult education. Leeds Grange Hall stage, 1975Leeds Historical Society The Grange…"