Pineland's Past is the first full history of a state facility that was opened in 1908 as the Maine School for Feeble-Minded and closed as Pineland Center in 1996, after packing its thirty-plus buildings with as many as 1500 residents--most disabled but some not--along the way....[more]

Named by the proprietors from Gloucester, Massachusetts, New Gloucester began as a frontier town, as it was the most inland settlement in Maine at the time. Incorporated in 1774, the town has been called home by such notables as mapmaker and author Moses Greenleaf, artist D....[more]