Keywords: Adirondack
Item 54840
Murray Tablets, Fairfield, ca. 1945
Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1945 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print
Item 17582
Contributed by: Maine State Museum Date: circa 1920 Media: Wood, canvas
Exhibit
George W. Hinckley and Needy Boys and Girls
George W. Hinckley wanted to help needy boys. The farm, school and home he ran for nearly sixty nears near Fairfield stressed home, religion, education, discipline, industry, and recreation.
Exhibit
Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
