Press

Media Features

We are pleased to include citations below to a selected number of articles and notices about organizations and communities who have undertaken projects in Maine Memory Network. Articles with hyperlinks are currently still available online; if no links appears, the article is no longer available on the web. Please let us know if any of the current links fail to work, or if you have others to add.

• “Local history project now live around the world,” Rumford Falls Times, 6/7/13
• “Western Foothills History Project holds open house, showcases new ‘digital museum’,” Sun Journal, 5/30/13
• “Maine Memory Network local history on display,” Sun Journal, 5/23/13
• “Students aid historical society as they scan for the ages,” Sun Journal, 12/13/12
• “Upcoming Westport Island History Project,” Westport Island blog, 10/15/12
• “Grant benefits local historical societies,” Morning Sentinel, 8/31/12
• “Surry celebrates its history—unveiled on Maine Memory Network website,” The Weekly Packet, 6/7/12
• “Strong’s history on display Sunday,” Daily Bulldog, 6/2/12
• “Groups to celebrate launch of Strong history project,” Sun Journal, 6/1/12
• “Western Foothills history project aims to tie towns together,” Sun Journal, 5/28/12
• “Bridging historical societies and schools together,” Rumford Falls Times, 5/11/12
• “Picturing Portland in the digital age,” Portland Press Herald, 12/28/11
• “Surry School launches history project,” The Weekly Packet, 10/13/11
• “An historic Sunday in Strong,” Daily Bulldog, 10/6/11
• “Discovery of 2 books reveals Strong history,” Lewiston Sun Journal, 7/29/11
• “Strong groups awarded grant for history project,” Morning Sentinel, 7/29/11
• “State’s trolley history going online,” Archive of the Kennebunk/Kennebunkport Post, 7/14/11
• “Funding for ‘Zoom In’ invigorates the rediscovery of history,” Portland Press Herald, 6/26/10
• “Biddeford history is now online,” Journal Tribune, 6/15/10
• “Quarry yields granite again,” Kennebec Journal, 6/15/10; (Hall-Dale students on tour in the quarry featured in photos.)
• “Students, historians launch website about town’s past,” The Forecaster, 6/10/10
• “Students revel in city’s history,” Kennebec Journal, 6/10/10
• “Students eager to share local history,” Bangor Daily News, 6/2/10
• “Student Website Highlights Lincoln’s History,” WABI TV5, 5/25/10
• “01.01.00 – 01.01.10: Technology Drives Changes in 21st Century’s First Decade,” Lakes Region Weekly, 12/31/09; Scarborough Middle School teacher Jessica Kelly is quoted in the section titled “The New 3 Rs” about the use of Skype in the MCHP (though the article does not mention MCHP by name).
• “Bangor Students Driving City’s Heritage Project,” Bangor Daily News, 12/29/09
• “Reunion to Celebrate Former Riding School at Skyline Farm,” Portland Press Herald, 12/23/09. The Reunion will be documented for inclusion on Cumberland/North Yarmouth’s MCHP website. (Skyline Farm is located in North Yarmouth.)
• Farmington in The Morning Sentinel, 10/24/09
• Guilford in The Daily Me, 10/22/09
• Scarborough Community Conversation Announcement in Portland Press Herald, 10/14/09
• “Towns to undertake heritage project,” The Forecaster, 10/1/09
• “Q&A: Finding Biddeford’s untold stories,” Sun Chronicle, 9/23/09
• “Project kick-off event in Blue Hill,” Fence Viewer, 9/21/09
• Hallowell MCHP profiled in The Kennebec Journal, 9/2/09
• Photos from Thomaston’s June 2009 Website Unveiling Celebration (on Flickr)
• New Portland MCHP profiled in The Morning Sentinel, 5/6/09
• “Maine Historical Society Seeking Applications for Maine Community Heritage Project,” The Magic City Morning Star, 2/20/09

Bangor Daily News Partnership

During our 2008-2010 Maine Community Heritage Project program years, we were fortunate to have partnered with the Bangor Daily News on the Newspapers in Education program. The program, “provided by newspapers to educational institutions worldwide, encourages using the newspaper in the classroom as a supplemental teaching tool to help students develop essential academic and life skills.”

In the 2008-2009 MCHP year, BDN featured four MCHP communities in its readership area (Islesboro, Hampden, Lubec, Presque Isle) on its full-page, full-color NIE spreads. The stories and images on the pages captured both the local history being explored by the MCHP teams and the processes students went through to digitize items, research topics, and generally do good history. See Islesboro’s page as a sample. (Scroll down to the link on the right-hand side that says “Bangor Daily News Article.”)

We are pleased that BDN again featured four MCHP communities during the 2009-2010 MCHP year–Bangor, Blue Hill, Guilford, and Lincoln. Students helped design page content and layout the pages with BDN staff. Features appeared in the spring and PDFs are provided below.

Bangor NIE page

Blue Hill NIE page

Guilford NIE page

Lincoln NIE page

Meanwhile, BDN also featured monthly “History Hunters” photos from MCHP communities, both past and present, all of which revealed something fascinating about the community in question.