Maine Memory Network

Minerva atop the Statehouse, Augusta, 1981

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1981-02-16 Location: Augusta Media: Photographic print

Abbott House atop Abbott Hill, Lower Main Street, Dixfield, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Dixfield Media: Photographic print

Poland Springs House, Poland, 1891

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1891 Location: Poland Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Maine Medical Center, Bramhall Campus

Maine Medical Center, founded as Maine General Hospital, has dominated Portland’s West End since its construction in 1871 on Bramhall Hill. As the medical field grew in both technological and social practice, the facility of the hospital also changed. This exhibit tracks the expansion and additions to that original building as the hospital adapted to its patients’ needs.

Gluskap of the Wabanaki

Creation and other cultural tales are important to framing a culture's beliefs and values -- and passing those on. The Wabanaki -- Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot -- Indians of Maine and Nova Scotia tell stories of a cultural hero/creator, a giant who lived among them and who promised to return.

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

"… rare glass stereo view shows Abner Lowell seated atop Mount Washington at the center of a group of visitors to the summit."

Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"A plaque-bearing boulder atop Avery Peak commemorates the man X The plaque reads, “Myron H. Avery Peak/of Mt."

The Point
by Norma K. Salway

In the summer, on the eastern shore of Songo, kids dove from a leaning tree

Sustainable Futures
by Bill McKibben, Schumann Distinguished Scholar Middlebury College

Climate change is the biggest thing humans have ever done. So we need to think big as we take it on.