Maine Memory Network

Music in Maine - Bluegrass Music

"… to his musical accomplishments, Al Hawkes worked to document and preserve the history of Maine’s bluegrass and country traditions."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"… to Presque Isle at the age of 16 and went to work for P.H. Phair in the lumber and starch business where he toiled for 30 years."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… young men, whether they belonged to the family or worked as hired hands, were especially important. Enough farm workers left our communities to…"

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.

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… War II and the deaths of her parents, Mame Savage worked as a nurse’s aid and children’s nurse for almost 10 years at North Shore Baby Hospital in…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"Savage is personally superintending the work; Messrs. Savage & Stratton… [fred l. savage, son of a.c."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"X Stephen Titcomb’s tale is one of hard work and determination. His dedication, along with other notable early settlers, resulted in the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"They provided donation of money and in-kind work up to $500 as long as it was big enough to provide space for the growing Charles Wheeler band."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"Door of Brick Inn. Notice the complex brick work around the entrance. (photo taken in 2020) X Who actually turned a one-family home into…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of West New Portland

"Work was suspended during the winter but early in the spring it was resumed. On June 20, 1842 the bridge was opened to traffic, the cost was $2,200."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"The workers were the lumberjacks who would work for months clearing acres of heavily forested land to finally send the logs down the Penobscot River…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4

"… pride themselves on self-sufficiency and hard work. The town continues to draw summer visitors but for most of the year life in Blue Hill is quiet…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"… employees and many other community members worked long and hard to clean up and regroup. In 1988, the name again changed, this time to Guilford of…"

Lincoln, Maine - Newspapers

"Works Cited Lincoln Historical Society. "A Brief History of Our Town." Lincoln, Maine: Town of Lincoln. Web. 31 Mar. 2010."

Lincoln, Maine - World War I

"Works Cited "Doughboy." Doughboy. Web. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughboy>. "The Great War". Web. <http://www.pbs.org> "Lincoln, Maine". Web."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"Work began and by the next spring Harold was back fishing from the Cappy. In a later diary entry, Queenie commented on the Cappy being repaired."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"… in the United States Senate; and as a senator, worked on the Missouri Compromise that permitted Maine to enter the Union as a free state."

Caribou Public Library

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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"… farmer Waldo Pettengill, while Hugh was working on the design of the manufacturing facilities and the layout of the residential town."

Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music

"… audiences through CBC broadcasts and in 1953 working as regulars on the WWVA Wheeling Jamboree radio show in West Virginia."

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"She sang before presidents, royalty, and working people alike during the Golden Age of Opera, from the mid-to late 1800s."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"In 1880 Hosea worked as a carpenter in Lynn, Massachusetts. He had applied for pension in 1865; then in 1900 his wife applied. Pvt. Abner H."

Acadian Archives

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