Maine Memory Network

Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy

"… arrived in Bangor, Maine where they opened a school that later became Saint John School. In 1873, Bishop David Bacon invited them to Portland to…"

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

"… Loeb Library Special Collections, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University “The United States have but this one short stretch of Atlantic…"

Mercy Hospital - McAuley Residence

"… social studies teacher at Catherine McAuley High School. In 1986, Sister Miriam was asked to change her sabbatical plans to undertake a research…"

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… his children and Johnson’s walked together to school. Starting under Larrabee in 1934, Howard “Bob” Gray raised a large family in the keepers’…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… expansion and eventual consolidation of the Lubec school system. A successful community fund-raising campaign resulted in the construction of a new…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"… en route to Dixfield Village, and a tavern and school were once located there. In 1860 the folks on Severy Hill built a huge cart body and put it…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"… son had attended Yale in the Arts and Harvard Law School and had been brought up in a pulp and paper family."

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"He went on to become a respected school teacher in the Philippines where he authored a history of the Islands."

Music in Maine - Community Music

"… and the New England Folk Festival as well as schools statewide for students from kindergarten through college age."

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.

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

"Also, he observed that schooling was given second place by some parents who needed the money the additional hands cutting or packing would bring."