Maine Memory Network

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"… medical care and personal counseling to pregnant women who lacked a private physician or were unable to afford care anywhere else."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"With the men away fighting, women would take over work in the mills and raise the children alone. Economically, the Depression affected the…"

Pejepscot Historical Society

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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.

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… in Readfield by a tremendous snowstorm and the women and children were forced to remain for four months until spring, while the men journeyed ahead…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Hundreds of young men and women from the city on the Penobscot left to serve their country in every corner of the globe."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"It was formerly a birthing house, where women came to deliver their babies. The Merrill Monument at the cemetery honors William and Louville Merrill…"