Keywords: "Faust"
Item 33479
"Faust" advertisement, Biddeford, ca. 1915
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1915 Location: Biddeford Media: Glass Negative
Item 18857
Program, 'Faust,' Lewiston, 1930
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1930-12-04 Location: Lewiston Media: Ink on paper
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Monuments to Civil War Soldiers
Maine supplied a huge number of soldiers to the Union Army during the Civil War -- some 70,000 -- and responded after the war by building monuments to soldiers who had served and soldiers who had died in the epic American struggle.
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Lewiston, Maine's second largest city, was long looked upon by many as a mill town with grimy smoke stacks, crowded tenements, low-paying jobs, sleazy clubs and little by way of refinement, except for Bates College. Yet, a noted Québec historian, Robert Rumilly, described it as "the French Athens of New England."