Maine Memory Network

Music in Maine - Music stores

"Piano and guitar teacher Mary Curran Leighton (1885-1972) and her spouse, Clifford Leighton, ran a music store in Portland where they sold…"

Music in Maine - Longfellow Family Music

"Sheet music Eliza Wadsworth sheet music, 1798Maine Historical Society Before printers made songbooks and sheet music widely available, people…"

Blue Hill, Maine - The Musical Culture of Blue Hill

"From folk music to chamber music, Blue Hill has embraced a variety of musical styles. Music has always been a big part of what this community uses to…"

Blue Hill, Maine - John Edward Horton, Civil War Soldier

"John Edward Horton's Casuality Sheet X Letters to and from his wife and child were rare but it is clear that John was aware of national political…"

Hollingsworth Fine Arts

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"Steen's was originally a sheet-metal manufacturer in the 1950s, but eventually evolved into a heating business and then an automobile dealership."

NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters Historic Site

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Surry by the Bay - Surry Village School

"… and pupils fashioned water cups out of half sheets of arithmetic paper. In 1931, the school got electricity and stove jackets were placed in each…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - A Call to Temperance

"X The Drunkard's Child's Farewell Sheet Music, 1888 Courtesy of Timothy L. Smith Written by Saco's William Grant Brooks (1869 - ca.1925), this…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Bootleggers vs. Police

"Eastman, 1998 Sheet music 25 The United States boundary ended three miles away from the shore and large vessels lined up, forming an area called rum…"