New Maine Memory Network Items- Asa Burns weaving, New Portland, ca. 1910
- Grist mill, Old Mystic, Connecticut, ca. 1910
- The Trysting place, Stanley Hill, Kingfield, ca. 1910
- Hollyhocks, ca. 1910
- Members of the Nebraska delegation to the NFBPWC convention, Portland, 1925
- Pearl Hadley Matlock at the NFBPWC convention, Portland, 1925
- International Appalachian Trail Lean-To plan, 1994-2007
- "Part of Bug Island" map fragment, ca. 1823
- Sutler agreement with Shepard Cary, Houlton, 1837
- Roosevelt School kindergarten class, Portland, 1947-1948
Category Archives: Maine Community Heritage Project
Local & Legendary: Maine in the Civil War, 2013-2015
by Janet Lyons, Consulting Project Coordinator, Maine Humanities Council It’s all over except for the paperwork and the reflection. For two years Local & Legendary: Maine in the Civil War, the National Endowment for the Humanities grant funded program, engaged … Continue reading
The Civil War Comes to Pittsfield
Pittsfield kicked off their Local & Legendary: Pittsfield in the Civil War program with back to back programs on March 12. A substantial number of community members and Maine Central Institute students turned out for a book discussion at the … Continue reading
One Book, One Community–a Weekend in Scarborough
The first weekend in March was sunny, with a taste of spring; at the Scarborough Public Library it was also all things Civil War. An author talk, three book discussions, and several fascinating speakers drew community members of all ages … Continue reading
Local & Legendary: Bethel and Ambrose Bierce
Starting in January, book lovers in Bethel braved the winter weather to meet monthly at the Bethel Library with facilitator Doug Rawlings to discuss Ambrose Bierce’s Civil War Stories, the town’s community read selection as part of the Local & … Continue reading
Embedding MMN in the Curriculum
The Friendship Museum, in partnership with the Friendship Village School, received a Maine Memory Network grant in the fall of 2012 to build an exhibit about the village’s historic Jameson & Wharf. The exhibit went online in June just as … Continue reading
Posted in Grants, Maine Community Heritage Project, Maine Memory Network
Tagged Friendship, Maine coast, ocean, service-learning, wharves
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MCHP Draws to a Close with Final Celebrations
The Maine Community Heritage Project, begun in 2008, officially came to an end recently with two culminating team events–in Dixfield on Wednesday, May 29, and in Northeast Harbor on Wednesday, June 5. The project has been twice funded under a … Continue reading
The New Crop of Grantees
The latest–and last–round of Maine Memory Network Community Mobilization Grants has been awarded. The program began in fall of 2011 under a three-year National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and has gone through five cycles. … Continue reading
Just the Stats, Ma’am
A month ago, we posted accessions statistics for the library and museum on our MHS blog. Now it’s Maine Memory’s turn. How much traffic does the database see in a month? Well, as with accessions, it varies depending on how … Continue reading
Digitizing History Party
This past Wednesday, December 12, 26 students from Dixfield High School and Rumford’s Holy Savior School–along with adults representing the historical societies of Peru, Dixfield, Byron, Rumford, and Mexico–gathered at the Peru Elementary School for a digitizing extravaganza. Part of … Continue reading
New and Noteworthy
Items get added to Maine Memory all the time, but some weeks are busier than others. We happen to be in a particularly busy period right now thanks to both veteran and new Contributing Partners (CPs) adding items in droves … Continue reading
Posted in Grants, Maine Community Heritage Project, Maine Memory Network
Tagged Buckfield, Byron, Dixfield, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ike, Kingfield, Mexico, paper industry, paper making, paper mills, Peru, President Eisenhower, RSU 10, Rumford, Senator Margaret Chase Smith, ski racing, skiing, Skowhegan, Sugarloaf, World Cup ski
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(RE)LIVING HISTORY 