Maine Memory Network

C19 on Pine Point Beach
by Beth, Scarborough

Cancer patient experience during pandemic

Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall

Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.

Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick

A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman

Growing up DownEast
by Darrin MC Mclellan

Stories of growing up Downeast

How Far is Deep Enough?
by Molly M.

Wading into Casco Bay after a hot and prickly afternoon on an island off Portland.

How Mom caught Dad
by Jane E. Woodman

How Ruth and Piney met in Wilton and started a life together

Mincemeat Recipe
by Marian Fowler

A recipe for mincemeat, along with the recipe's history.

Epidemic of violence against Indigenous people
by Michael-Corey F. Hinton

Systemic racism, murder, and the danger of stereotypes

Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler

How hunting has impacted my life

Lionel "Toots" Bouthot: A life filled with music
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

From the age of 5, a lifetime of contributing to the musical fabric of Biddeford.

My career as a wildlife biologist
by Ron Joseph

Rural Maine provided the foundation of a rewarding career as a wildlife biologist.

Passing the time during the Pandemic
by Don V

Building a strip canoe

Thoughts of Freedom
by Raymond

Painting my thoughts and loves while incarcerated at Maine State Prison

My father's world - the old farm in Richmond, Maine
by Donald C. Cunningham

A story about my father and our family.

Learning to fly and instructing cadets at West Point during WWII
by Vera Cleaves

West Point during World War II

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down