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What It Was & What I Know: Attempts At Family History, Katherine Reardon

Honors College

Family stories and family histories are contingent on how they are remembered. As these stories are passed down, the ways that they are remembered can change, with the truthful aspects of these stories disappearing over time. As a result, many family stories are not necessarily truthful, but this does not discount their value. The aim of this project is to explore these ideas while also answering the following question: to what extent are family stories bound by the ‘truth’? In order to answer this question, I have explored my own family stories that I know may not be true and …

2019 Annual Report Town Of Burnham, Maine, Burnham, (Me.).

Maine Town Documents

No abstract provided.

Clement And Linda Mcgillicuddy Humanities Center Spring 2019 Report, Clement And Linda Mcgillicuddy Humanities Center

General University of Maine Publications

The Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center promotes a broad spectrum of human culture through programs that aim to foster intellectual curiosity, critical reflection and creative innovation. It serves as a locus for humanities research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and meaningful conversations among scholars, artists, students, and the public.

The McGillicuddy Humanities Center now has thirteen affiliated funds, designed to support research, travel and other enrichment of student work in humanities fields.

History Of Bradley Maine, Sesquicentennial History Committee

Maine History Documents

No abstract provided.

The Leeman House, The Willett House, & Mcguire Point (1800s-1900s), Randy Lackovic

Darling Marine Center Historical Documents

This is a local history of former residents of the Leeman House at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole, ME. It is also a history of McGuire Point in Walpole, Maine, and it is a history of past residents of the Willett House of the University of Maine at McGuire Point.

Being & Not Being Franco-American: The Perspective Of One 21st Century Millennial, Maegan Maheau

Franco-American Centre Franco-Américain Undergraduate Scholarship

I am attempting to share a collective analysis of self-explored thoughts as to where and why I have certain viewpoints or biases on whether “this” or “that” might account for my understanding of what a Franco-American is. The question of being and not being a Franco American is a collection of observations and inductions, both through my socially crafted subjective lens and by relating such matters beyond personal experience.

Maine Peace Action Committee Newsletter, April 2016, Maine Peace Action Committee

General University of Maine Publications

MPAC compiled a newsletter consisting of essays, articles, short stories, poems, recipes, political cartoons, and artwork.

Whitefield News, Whitefield Newsletter Team, Cheryle Joslyn, Kit Pfeiffer, Jim Torbert, Dennis Merrill, Bill Bunting, Ed Karass, Chris Colpitt, Tony Marple, Charlie Tobin, David Chase, Niki Mathews, Howard Tuttle, Debbie Rogers, Jane Chase, Dan Joslyn, Michelle Duncan Shaw, Sally Allen, Herb Hartman, Jennifer Grady

Maine Town Documents

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January 2015 Volume 2, Issue 7
February 2015 Volume 2, Issue 8
March 2015 Volume 2, Issue 9
April 2015 Volume 2, Issue 10
May 2015 Volume 2, Issue 11
June 2015 Volume 2, Issue 12
July 2015 Volume 3, Issue 1
August 2015 Volume 3, Issue 2
September 2015, Volume 3, Issue 3
October 2015, Volume 3, Issue 4
November 2015, Volume 3, Issue 5
December 2015, Volume 3, Issue 6

Class Conflict And The Confederate Conscription Acts In North Carolina, 1862-1864, Tyler Cline

Honors College

This thesis will analyze the effect that Confederate conscription policies during the American Civil War from 1862 to 1864 had on the social order that existed in North Carolina. Conflicts arose during the war between the slave-owning aristocratic class and the yeomen farmers who owned few slaves, if any, and thus were not dependent on the slave system in the pre-war era. A regional approach, exploring the impact of geography on social development, illustrates that the undermining of this social stability led to growing class-consciousness among the middle class farmers who dominated the Piedmont region of North Carolina. It will …

The Grand Derangement In The Context Of The Eighteenth - Century British Empire, Derek A. Jones

Honors College

Since the 1960's there has been a fierce debate on the criminality of the deportation of the Acadian people from the Maritimes. Since then, many historians have compared the deportation of the Acadians, also known as the Grand Dérangement, to modern acts of 'ethnic cleansing'. However, these comparisons take the Grand Dérangement out of context. This thesis compares the Grand Dérangement to the transportation of Scottish and Irish rebels after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 and United Irish Rebellion of 1798 in an effort to establish that the Grand Dérangement was extraordinary in the context of the 18th-century British …

Dawnbreaker Vol 57 No 3 (Spring 2010), Dawnbreaker Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

Mellie Dunham: A Remembrance Norway Maine Summer Festival, July 2003, David Sanderson

Maine History Documents

The story of Mellie Dunham continues to fascinate, even some seventy-five years after the events. The tale of the 72-year-old country fiddler invited to play for Henry Ford, made famous by the media, then hugely successful as a vaudeville performer, seems almost too perfect to be true. But it all happened, and it was Mellie’s own grace and lack of pretense, a genuineness that inspired the public’s affection for him, that was as much as anything else responsible for the events of 1925 and 1926.

This booklet was created to mark Mellie’s 150th birthday, July 29, 2003. We call it …

History Of Veazie, Maine, Jean Hamilton

Maine Town Documents

Veazie, the smallest town in Penobscot County (consisting of four square miles or 2,560 acres), is about a mile north of Bangor. Until its incorporation in 1853, Veazie was a part of Bangor, known both as Ward 7 and as North Bangor. Its early history must therefore include some of the story of Bangor and early settlements and/or fortifications along the Penobscot River.

1998, Umaine News Press Releases, Division Of Marketing And Communications, Peter Cook, Nick Houtman, Joe Carr, Kay Hyatt

General University of Maine Publications

This is an incomplete catalog of press releases posted by the University of Maine Division of Marketing and Communications online from September 15 to December 4, 1998.

Maine Statewide News Letter No. 15 (April 1981), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

Social Impact Summary : Dickey-Lincoln School Lakes Project / Prepared For The Department Of The Army, Corps Of Engineers, New England Division, Edward C. Jordan Company, Inc.

Dickey-Lincoln School Lakes Project

The Dickey-Lincoln Hydroelectric Dam is a water resources project proposed by the Federal Government (U. S. Army Corps of Engineers). Therefore, in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act, the Corps of Engineers is required to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) on the project. A federal plan or project such as Dickey-Lincoln should take into account its effect upon man's health, safety, welfare and economic well-being, as well as effects upon the surrounding environment. More importantly, project plans should be evaluated in a "manner calculated to encourage harmony between man and his environment." In other words, project plans or …

Abenaki Experimental College, Course Catalog, Autumn, 1972, University Of Maine

General University of Maine Publications

A document that provides a brief update on the progress of a University of Maine student-organized effort known as the Abenaki experimental college. Students and members of the surrounding community were invited to teach courses on a volunteer basis in a program with no tuition costs. This catalog provides descriptions for courses offered in the fall of 1972.

New English Canaan, Thomas Morton

Maine History Documents

In 1883 the Prince Society published in very limited quantity The New English Canaan edited by Charles Francis Adams. Since then there has been no new edition of this informative and entertaining work. Adams held faithfully to the original in spelling, punctuation, and even in the use of the early in the text. His footnotes are learned, copious, and occasionally a bit irrelevant, but a number of mystifying expressions are not explained. It may simply be the short supply and relatively poor readability that have caused modern scholars to deny Morton’s work the attention that it deserves. In this edition …

Maine Federation News Vol. Xxxi, No. 2 (January 1955), Maine Federation Of Women's Clubs Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

The Pine Needle, February 1947, Pine Needle Publications, Rip Haskell, Lawrence C. Collier, Bill Horner, Jean Miller, Shirley B. Speers, Joe Tillem, K. Bridges, Lloyd Shapleigh, Bill Brennan, Barbie Patten

General University of Maine Publications

Libraries and archives collect materials from different cultures and time periods to preserve and make available the historical record. As a result, materials such as those presented here may reflect sexist, misogynistic, abusive, racist, or discriminatory attitudes or actions that some may find disturbing, harmful, or difficult to view.

Both a humor and literary magazine, The Pine Needle was a University of Maine student-produced periodical that began publication in the fall of 1946, the first post-World War II semester that saw GIs returning to campus.

The Needle reflected an edginess and rebellion not found in previous UMaine student publications. While …

Tourist Homes In Maine, Rena Campbell Bowles

Maine History Documents

A guide to beginning a business in Maine to open one's home to travelers, published in 1936.

The Black Mansion, Ellsworth, Maine, Mrs. Axel Eliason

Maine History Documents

A script of the tour of the Black Mansion, now known as the Woodlawn Museum, circa 1928, describing the furnishings in the Ellsworth, Maine home.

The Northern, September, 1927, Great Northern Paper Company

Great Northern Paper Company Records

A magazine published by the Social Services Division of the Spruce Wood Department, Great Northern Paper Company.

The Northern, April, 1926, Great Northern Paper Company

Great Northern Paper Company Records

A magazine published by the Social Services Division of the Spruce Wood Department, Great Northern Paper Company.

The Northern, July, 1925, Great Northern Paper Company

Great Northern Paper Company Records

A magazine published by the Social Services Division of the Spruce Wood Department of the Great Northern Paper Company.

The Northern, April, 1924, Great Northern Paper Company

Great Northern Paper Company Records

An issue of a magazine produced for employees by the Spruce Wood Department of the Great Northern Paper Company. Full title -- The Northern: A Magazine of Contact Between the Management and the Men.

The Northern, February, 1924, Great Northern Paper Company

Great Northern Paper Company Records

An issue of a magazine produced for employees by the Spruce Wood Department of the Great Northern Paper Company. Full title -- The Northern: A Magazine of Contact Between the Management and the Men.

Humane Education In The Public Schools Of Maine: Animals Have Rights As Well As We, Percival P. Baxter

Maine History Documents

A booklet encouraging kindness to animals. Headings include: Introduction, The Law, Humane Education Defined, No Special Method Prepared, Making Use of Pets, Domestic Animals, Wild Animals, A Helpful Suggestion, Animals in Art, Band of Mercy Pledge, In Connection with the School Improvement League, Interesting Exercises, Suggestions for a Program, Books on Animals for Younger Children, Short Stories, The Horse's Prayer, and Eulogy on the Dog by George Graham West. Includes photographs of Governor Baxter's Irish Setter, Garry.

The Northern, September, 1923, Great Northern Paper Company

Great Northern Paper Company Records

An issue of a magazine produced for employees by the Spruce Wood Department of the Great Northern Paper Company. Full title -- The Northern: A Magazine of Contact Between the Management and the Men.

The Northern, May, 1922, Great Northern Paper Company

Great Northern Paper Company Records

An issue of a magazine produced for employees by the Spruce Wood Department of the Great Northern Paper Company. Full title -- The Northern: A Magazine of Contact Between the Management and the Men.