Maine Memory Network

Music in Maine - Military Marching Bands

"… Town bands carried on the marching tradition of military bands after the Civil War, with uniforms often resembling the original military style."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Plymouth Company (Kennebec Proprietors) records, ca. 1625-1824

"The Plymouth Company (Kennebec Proprietors) records, ca. 1625-1824 Kennebec Purchase Deed, October 27, 1661Maine Historical Society The…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 2 of 5

"Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records Acknowledgement In the twenty-first century, historians and tribal scholars have turned to these…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 3 of 5

"Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records Kinship and Leadership Copy, deed from James and Rachell Berry to Proprietors, page 1 of 3Maine…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 4 of 5

"Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records Sovereignty and Subsistence Copy, account regarding deed from Abenaki Sagamores to Richard Wharton…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 5 of 5

"Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records Place Names and Continuance Plan for towns along the Androscoggin River, ca."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 1 of 5

"Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records Essay by Lisa Brooks (Abenaki), Fall 2022 Lisa Brooks (Missisquoi Abenaki) Henry S."

Music in Maine - HEAR

"… Click to hear Dwayne Tomah discuss wax cylinder recordings Recording cylinders, ca. 1930Maine Historical Society Anthropologist Jesse Walter…"

Music in Maine - Civil War drum, ca. 1861

"… Henry Green (1832-1901) of Portland carried this military style side drum in the 10th and 17th Maine Regiments from October 4, 1861 to March 11…"

Music in Maine - Bluegrass Music

"… Lilly Brothers from West Virginia, who in 1957, recorded at Al Hawkes’ Event Records in Westbrook."

Music in Maine - Country Music

"… 9,000 copies of Tombstone Every Mile before Tower Records, a division of Capitol Records, purchased the master."

Music in Maine - Music stores

"Record Store Day helped drive the resurgence of vinyl and increased US music sales to more than a billion dollars annually."

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

"… years old, my mother gave me my very first Elvis record, Elvis’ Golden Records. I was captivated by the man on the cover."

Music in Maine - Music Makers

"She wrote in her diary, "Oh! My records! These new recordings make me happy. Schirmer’s machine is a joy, such tone-quality and such clarity!"…"

Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music

"They performed and recorded music on RCA records with a band called the Lone Pine Mountaineers—paying homage to Maine as the Pine Tree State and the…"

Music in Maine - Community and School Marching Bands

"… lead in several Lewiston operas and was an early recording artist for Victor Records. Often sponsored by the Catholic church, Franco band formed to…"

Music in Maine - Sacred Music

"… further shortened version of Zimelman—teaches and records in New York, with 23 recordings of Yiddish, Israeli, Chassidic, Broadway, opera and pop…"

Music in Maine - MAKE

"… and scripture into Indigenous languages, but also recorded the oral histories and songs in Wabanaki languages including Abenaki…"

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"… across America as “Princess Watahwaso” and recorded with Victor Records. Lucy Nicolar met and married Bruce Poolaw, from the Kiowa Tribe of…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Village School

"… in the early 1940s as evidenced by the following records of Surry students: 1940 Sylvia Whitney, Valedictorian;1942, George Staten, Valedictorian…"

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"There is no record of Leila’s passing, other than the Surry book of births, deaths and marriages held in the Town Hall vault."

Surry by the Bay - About The Project

"… century census, photographs, scrapbooks, and town records. During the warmer months, this treasured building, which has been placed on the registry…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"Benjamin Milliken was the only Loyalist on record from Surry. Moses Hammond, Andrew Flood and Sterling Hopkins fought against the British."

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 2 of 2

"Some of Mattie’s military records and citations plus personally autographed pictures of Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley are currently housed at…"