Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More Permanent Settlers Arrive

"More Permanent Settlers Arrive Two major waves of settlers arrived after 1768 – the first from Gloucester, Massachusetts in addition to James…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Picnic, Fort Point Light, and Fort Pownal, 1865

"… and Elmer went on the excursion on Fairy of the Wave, a vessel Hugh Ross had built with a dance floor on each deck."

Music in Maine - Music Makers

"… Society Mellie Dunham playing 'Rippling Waves,' 1926 Listen to Mellie Dunham playing Ripping Waves WaltzNorway Historical Society…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"… earlier when the ship was struck by a large wave and Captain Lermond’s wife was struck on the head by a beam that had become dislodged. Mrs."

Music in Maine - Music in Maine

"When radio and television waves raced across Maine in the 20th century, instead of diluting musical traditions, these influences layered blues…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Depression, War, and Fire

"… motels and small inns, built in time to ride a wave of economic prosperity and the rise of the American car culture."

Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"A milder first wave struck in January 1918, with mortality rates not far outside of a normal flu season."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"… war broke over the natives and settlers like the waves crashing along the rocky shoreline. Many lives were lost on both sides, and for some time…"

Great Cranberry Island Historical Society

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Music in Maine - HEAR

"… inventors worked on harnessing electromagnetic waves, Italian Guglielmo Marconi created the Wireless Telegraph and Signal company in 1897, the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"… have paddled with dear old Big Thunder, when the waves rocked us in his little canoe, and when we glided like shadows, while twilight fell around…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"The first wave of visitors were generalized as "preachers and teachers," those who had the free time to spend an entire summer on the island."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"… of a different nature, where even strangers wave to each other as they cross paths on the roads."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… proliferated along the Androscoggin, additional waves of immigrants, in the person of Italian and Eastern European masons, came to build them…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Bootleggers vs. Police

"… tremendous ovation from the crowd who cheered and waved at them." Harold Boyle, The Best of Boyle , 1980 Suspected Rum Runner Dixie III…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"… soon after, our old star-spangled banner was seen waving from every fort on the line to the right and left."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… contagions swept through native societies in waves, and ultimately killed between 70-90% of the population ."

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

"Punk and New Wave music were trending at that time and we were very taken by the attitude and rawness of the Sex Pistols, The Clash, and Generation X."

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

"“The wave action must have done that over the years,” said Chandler. “It was truly amazing.” The contractor could excavate on a specific section of…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… the cornfields of the Canabus Indians formerly waved in the breeze. This beautiful village has become quite renowned for its cluster of literary…"

Acadian Archives

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