Diane L Barnes

Sebago Lake: West Shore Standish, Baldwin, Sebago, and Naples

Upper Saco River Valley: Fryeburg, Lovell, Brownfield, Denmark, and Hiram

The Lake Region, Me

The Oxford Hills: Greenwood, Norway, Oxford, Paris, West Paris, And Woodstock

The Sebago Lake Area: Windham, Standish, Raymond, Casco, Sebago, and Naples

The Oxford Hills

Lake Region Maine

Maine Life

Oxford Hills: Greenwood, Norway, Oxford, Paris, West Paris, and Woodstock, The (ME) (Images of America)

The Oxford Hills have always been unique in the history of Maine. They were not settled until after the French and Indian War of 1763, and their isolation allowed the communities to develop distinct identities apart from external influences. The arrival of the railroad connected the area to Portland...

Mixed Signals

Getting dumped is never easy, but there’s a special bonus sting if your ex-fiancé is a producer for a popular morning radio show. Jillian Atwood’s breakup with Nico has become the hosts’ number-one topic. They’re even running a competition to find him a new girlfriend. The entire population of Bosto...

Waiting for Ethan

Maine Life at the Turn of the Century: Through the Photographs of Nettie Cummings Maxim (Images of America: Maine) (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing))

Before her death in 1910, Nettie Cummings Maxim chronicled the people, landscapes, and animals of a typical Maine farm at Bird Hill in Bethel at the turn of the century. In a time before mass media, her world consisted almost entirely of her family and farm. This intimate familiarity with her immedi...

Lake Region

Maine's Lake Region is uniquely endowed with a network of lakes and waterways that define its identity. Long before the first resemblance of a road extended into the hinterland from Falmouth (Portland), the more intrepid and rugged individuals traveled up the Presumpscot River to Sebago Lake, and th...

Upper Saco River Valley: Fryeburg, Lovell, Brownfield, Denmark, and Hiram (ME) (Images of America)

Until 1725, the Saco River was the main artery for the Pequawket Indians traveling in canoes to and from the Atlantic. Soon thereafter came trappers, followed by loggers, who harvested the colossal white pine and sent the logs floating down the river to sawmills mushrooming all along its course. By ...

Sebago Lake Area: Windham, Standish, Raymond, Casco, Sebago, and Naples, The (ME) (Images of America)

Clean and clear, the waters of the streams and ponds that feed into Sebago Lake bring a constant supply of newness to a region centuries-deep in tradition. Located in southwestern Maine's Cumberland County, Sebago, "great stretch of water," has been a gathering place for generations of native people...

Sebago Lake: West Shore, Standish, Baldwin, Sebago, and Naples (Images of America: Maine)

The four Cumberland County towns--Standish, Baldwin, Sebago, and Naples--along the west shore of Maine's second largest freshwater body of water, Sebago Lake, form the core of the latest work by Diane and Jack Barnes: Sebago Lake: West Shore. Even at a time when the vast hinterland of Maine was plag...