Journeys into the Past at UNE

Image courtesy of Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, DigitalCommons@UMaine, https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/spec_photos/623 Theme Music: Half Light. "You Love Wrong." Track 1 on The Lost Album . Knick Knack Records, 2015, CD, Courtesy of Dayna Loeffler.   Bibliography: “At Last: A World Championship Dance Marathon”, Biddeford-Saco Journal , June 22, 1933. Bishop Brewster hea...

Image courtesy of Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, DigitalCommons@UMaine, https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/spec_photos/1569 Theme Music: Half Light. "You Love Wrong." Track 1 on The Lost Album . Knick Knack Records, 2015, CD, Courtesy of Dayna Loeffler.   Bibliography: Brick Store Museum. “Windows on the Past.” 2010. Brown, Dona. Inventing New England, 1995. Carbino, Mike a...

Image Courtesy of McArthur Library, Biddeford, Maine. https://mcarthur.pastperfectonline.com/photo/4E5BE2CA-C7FB-422F-91E5-375673263231 Theme Music: Half Light. "You Love Wrong." Track 1 on The Lost Album . Knick Knack Records, 2015, CD, Courtesy of Dayna Loeffler.   Bibliography: Alley, Margo. Biddeford Pool Yacht Club 1934 – 2009, 2012. Bachelder, Peter Dow. The Great Steel Pier: an illustrated...

Image Courtesy of Saco Museum, Saco, Maine. https://hub.catalogit.app/saco-museum/folder/entry/destruction-of-hotel-alberta-old-orchard-beach-1907 Theme Music: Half Light. "You Love Wrong." Track 1 on The Lost Album . Knick Knack Records, 2015, CD, Courtesy of Dayna Loeffler.   Bibliography: “A Night of Terror: Echoes of the Disaster.” Lewiston Evening Journal. August 16, 1907. “Dies Three Hours L...

Image Courtesy of McArthur Library, Biddeford, Maine. https://mcarthur.pastperfectonline.com/photo/3FBD4644-C138-47CC-85A7-556985262896 Theme Music: Half Light. "You Love Wrong." Track 1 on The Lost Album . Knick Knack Records, 2015, CD, Courtesy of Dayna Loeffler.   Bibliography: Andrea L. Canfield “Northern New England Journey.” Old Orchard Beach’s Long Pier. Vol. 9,  no. 5. Sept./Oct. 2003. p....

We would very much like to thank Broad Reach Adventures (https://broadreachadventures.com/) for their hospitality and for helping us complete the archaeological portion of this course. A very big thank you to Keith Landry for permission to use his music. You'll find our theme music, "Into the Light (This Lazy River), on Keith's Alonetone site. The full album is available at: https://alonetone.com/...

We would very much like to thank Broad Reach Adventures (https://broadreachadventures.com/) for their hospitality and for helping us complete the archaeological portion of this course. A very big thank you to Keith Landry for permission to use his music. You'll find our theme music, "Into the Light (This Lazy River), on Keith's Alonetone site. The full album is available at: https://alonetone.com/...

We would very much like to thank Broad Reach Adventures (https://broadreachadventures.com/) for their hospitality and for helping us complete the archaeological portion of this course.  A very big thank you to Keith Landry for permission to use his music. You'll find our theme music, "Into the Light (This Lazy River), on Keith's Alonetone site. The full album is available at: https://alonetone.com...

In this third episode of our series, Falling By The Wayside, Kai Watkins, Marissa Carter, Joe Gagnon, and Lily Furtado recount the story of Alonzo Mitchell, the man who built The Wayside, and his family. We learn about his life and career, his pets, and his operation of a shore dinner hall—a complicated story told through an impressive range of sources. IMAGE:  Abbie Flood (holding the cat). (Imag...

Episode 2 of Falling By The Wayside picks up the story in a period of major transition for the southern Maine coast. The region was largely fueled by farming and fishing. The advent of large textile mills prompted significant movements of population. In our area, it meant that the City of Biddeford itself moved upstream from the mouth of the Saco to the falls several miles upstream. What were thos...

Here is the first of four episodes of our course podcast series, Falling By The Wayside . This episode was researched, written, and produced by Olivia Ellis, Lucas Girard and Peyton Stevens. It traces the history of this area from roughly the last ice age to the nineteenth century, giving a sense of how our house fit into the larger history of the area. Before the podcast, professors Arthur Anders...