Digital Maine – stories by and about Mainers, stories told by things and places

Digital Maine is a forum for storytelling—stories by and about Mainers, stories told by things and places.

Digital Maine is a home for digital scholarship and student-faculty collaboration.

Digital Maine is a place where the College collaborates with Maine communities.

Contributors find, digitize, create, and archive artifacts—things like photos, letters, maps, films, reports, and oral histories. We use these artifacts to build interpretive projects about Maine and its cultures, telling interdisciplinary stories through video documentaries and short films, radio documentaries and podcasts, interactive maps, and multimedia interpretive narratives.

These are stories previously untold, informed by new archives. The projects materialize at the intersection of student, faculty, and public collaboration—a public of the state’s many and ever-changing communities, including the Colby community. Through Digital Maine, Colby commits its labor and resources to a platform for telling stories about Mainers new and old, past and present.