Maine Memory Network

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"Known as the Popham or Sagadahock Colony, it barely lasted a year, from 1607-1608. The region was also impacted by the 1621 grant given by the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…

"After 150 years of these conflicts, barely 1,000 Wabanaki men, women, and children remained in Maine."

Historic Hallowell - Timeline of Cyclone

"… compartment made by scattered debris that was barely bigger than it's stable! After " A little boy named Virgil White was injured in the cyclone."

North Yarmouth Historical Society

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Music in Maine - Music and Television

"… Mud by the Platters, wearing rolled up jeans, bare feet, and her father’s work shirt. Tina Warming Lichtenberg performed on the Dave Astor Show…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"This was barely 30 years after Somes's arrival. By 1800 people were building schools and churches all over the island."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… Hadlock Pond, climbing and tramping across the bare summits and through the forest, all the while collecting and observing natural history."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… the astounding beauty of Mount Desert Island’s bare granite mountaintops, its mix of boreal and deciduous forests, clear lakes, and bold seashore."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Village Schools

"… cold that only a small area near the register was barely comfortable. The wind swept down the river and up over the bank, making the building creak…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"Got Stowell with his oxen to help me over bare ground up to the Huntress Ferry. Hauled my load with hard pulling up to the top of the [?] way hill…"

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

"In fact, students at Scarborough Middle School barely use pens and pencils for writing because they use laptops to electronically type out their work…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"These were bare bones concerts without the pageantry of costumes, sets, or a full orchestra. Some of the participants had been professional…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Elusive Championship

"… of Hampden Academy Basketball were written, barely 20 years after the game was invented, and long before the NBA evolved."

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

"… and burning of debris cleared the shore to bare ground. Construction commenced with building of U.S."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… short of officers, our remaining line officers barely sufficing to furnish each company with a commander, some lieutenants commanding by detail…"

Otisfield Historical Society

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

"The ink was barely dry on the non-compete agreements they had signed with the cartel, when they set up a company with eventually four canneries that…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Others stayed but barely survived. Conditions improved after the Revolutionary War but only gradually."

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… the Academy a small amount of money, but this was barely enough to sustain it. Things began to change in the late 40s, 50s and 60s."

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

"… day New Gloucester, so we can assume that the bare beginnings of the county road first known as the New Gloucester Road--Route 115--had been…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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