Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"The reason they did this, as one writer noted, was because this family, "like most families in Eden, had always made good use of what lay to hand. Mr."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"… a few months’ schooling became good readers and writers and spelled correctly in later life. The first school books were the American Preceptor…"

Prince Memorial Library

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Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"Verge was known as the “Maine Shipyard Song Writer”. The John R Braden March Song © 1922 (sung to the tune of “Boom Our State” also by Byron Verge)…"

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.

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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