Maine Memory Network

Scientist Turned Artist Making Art Out of Trash
by Ian Trask

Bowdoin College alum returns to midcoast Maine to make environmentally conscious artwork

One View
by Karen Jelenfy

My life as an artist in Maine.

How Mom caught Dad
by Jane E. Woodman

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

William Manning in conversation with Christopher Crosman
by William Manning and Christopher Crosman

A conversation between an artist and art historian

The $ame Band
by Mike Laskey

Maine's punk rock band, 1977

My life as a revolutionary knitter
by Katharine Cobey

Moving to Maine and confronting knitting stereotypes

making light
by David Johansen

My relationship with Maine and how and why I make neon lights here.

Co-founding Halcyon Yarn and learning to weave
by Hector Jaeger

Moving to Maine, Halcyon Yarn, and rediscovering the joy of weaving

Rug Hooking Project with a Story
by Marilyn Weymouth Seguin

My grandmother taught me the Maine craft of rug hooking when I was a child.

Story of the "little nun"
by Felicia Garant

My grandmother made a nun's outfit for me

In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood

An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars