Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"… the letters of Caroline Briggs, a Massachusetts widow of relatively modest means who stayed at Rockaway House every summer from 1881 until her…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Summer Pleasures cont'd

"Her grandmother was from Atlantic and her grandfather was from Minturn. He was widowed at the time and they had never met before."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Andrew Smith Store

"1935Swan's Island Historical Society Like many island stores, Andrew Smith's sold a variety of goods."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 1 of 2

"Oliver Noyes, fellow proprietor, married the widow of Jefferies son David and his grandson David III went on to become an integral part of the rival…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"… as well as sons inherited from their fathers, and widows inherited from their husbands both via their dower rights and additional bequests."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Benjamin Kimball, Bangor, ca. 1867

"… "When the 22 Regiment left Bangor for Ship Island he was the tallest & handsomest man in the regiment." Martin's illustration of Kimball and…"

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"… many hosting actual operas, such as The Merry Widow in Lewiston and Faust in Biddeford, capitalizing on the opera craze in America during the late…"