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Members of Maine Contemporary Archives share takeaways from the first year of collaboration. Presented at the Maine Library Association Annual Conference 2021.

Part of the documentary photography project "Unsettled Ground." In this series of eight photographs, Rob Schulz captures the feeling of disorientation and dizziness associated with public spaces during the early days of COVID-19. Schulz pairs…

I was reacting to my wife's observations at Hannaford's, along with what we were reading/hearing in the news, locally and nationally.

March 20, 2020, I ventured out as sunrise was unfolding to look for photo opportunities. The harbor area was too dark to be interesting because of the dense fog, so I walked into the center of town. There I noticed some of the signs on restaurant and…

Letter-writing has a significantly enhanced value during the pandemic. It's a safe way for people to personally "visit" one another.

Join Maine Contemporary Archives as we learn about the Roadmap for Participatory Archiving (RoPA) with Dr. Carolyn Goldstein, Public History and Community Archives Program Manager at UMass Boston. RoPA is a set of modules designed to guide librarians…

When we built our house 35 years ago our tomatoes never turned red, we picked them green before the frost in October and ripened them on the windowsill. Now our tomatoes turn red by mid-July!

The marquee on Portland's State Theatre, 609 Congress Street, with a message of encouragement for passers-by. "Resurgam" is the City of Portland's motto, meaning "I shall arise again."

The marquee message was created by Kevin Norsworthy, Office…

What can an old photograph tell us about history? Plenty! Photographs hold a wealth of information about what life was like in the past. In this lesson, students must act like sleuths and uncover the clues!Photographs can be “read” just like any…

Lise Pelletier, the Director of the Acadian Archives at the University of Maine Fort Kent, and her sister, Colette Pelletier Langevin, who lives across the border in New Brunswick, gave this interview to Radio-Canada reporter Janique LeBlanc on…

COVID-19 experiences of members of an Orono Public Library writing circle compiled by Barbara Wicks as the "Corona Chronicles", starting in March 2020. Subsequent issues are included as supplemental content.

Artist interpretation of the early months of the Covid-19 Pandemic.