Maine Memory Network

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"In 1816, Maine experienced the “Year Without a Summer,” a devastating year for agriculture in which snow fell in June! Throughout the 1820s the…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"By the summer of 2000, the Skyline Farm organization and the Sowles family arranged a purchase with a conservation easement through the Royal River…"

Prince Memorial Library

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… made the first clearing in the forest during the summer of 1794, cutting trees for burning and for building, while his family remained in Falmouth."

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Longfellow Era: 1807-1901

"… "...on our own street we have had a whole summer of dust already...for in our town is the constant stir up by the horse cars."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"During the summer of 1926, locals gathered at the Perry Opera House. Washburn attorney, Andrew “Jack” Beck and local attorney, Charles Daggett, spoke…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Yet its greatest hardship would come in the late summer when British troops, victorious over the 10th Militia Division of Massachusetts in a rout in…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… event in 1816 was “the year without a summer.” A frost occurred in every month and there was no corn raised, a staple food crop."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"It is visited by many folks during the summer months, and usually hosts the Norton Reunion in August."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"… keep a large garden and spend time during the summer canning, freezing, and storing their harvest."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"… campers pass through our village in winter and summer. The North Village is a great place to live, the people are great and always willing to help…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"Roosevelt’s long time summer home, lies 10 miles across open ocean from mainland New Brunswick. But a mere 300 yards from the U.S."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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

"… and Lubec to work in the canneries in the summer and fall” (p. 87). Judging from the teenagers and children in the group portrait, families must…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… Northern Maine Fair is still an important rite of summer, WAGM transformed itself from an AM radio station to a television station, and the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"In the summer of 2007, the Red Schoolhouse was moved to the Agricultural Society’s grounds, where it was rehabilitated."