Keywords: American Advocate
Item 78830
G.F. Shepley acceptance to American Metric Bureau, 1876
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1876 Location: Portland; Boston Media: Ink on paper
Item 31359
Samuel K. Gilman, Hallowell, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Hubbard Free Library Date: circa 1880 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
In the early 1600s, French explorers and colonizers in the New World quickly adopted a Native American mode of transportation to get around during the harsh winter months: the snowshoe. Most Northern societies had some form of snowshoe, but the Native Americans turned it into a highly functional item. French settlers named snowshoes "raquettes" because they resembled the tennis racket then in use.
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Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
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Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 1 of 2
"… a Maine newspaper founded for the purpose of advocating separation, published a full front-page article submitted by “A Farmer” regarding the…"
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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Icons & Influencers
"… Colonel Fred Dow (son of infamous Temperance advocate, Neal Dow), but starting with Guy Gannett’s ownership in 1925, the Evening Express became…"
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
Story
The Equal Freedom to Marry
by Mary L Bonauto
Marriage Equality, Maine, and the U.S. Supreme Court
