Keywords: Belfast
Item 98724
American House Hotel, Belfast, ca. 1875
Contributed by: Belfast Free Library Date: circa 1875 Location: Belfast Media: Stereograph
Item 98369
New England House Hotel, Belfast, ca. 1875
Contributed by: Belfast Free Library Date: circa 1875 Location: Belfast Media: Stereograph
Item 109274
Belfast Airport hanger, Belfast, 1944
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1944 Location: Belfast Client: Town of Belfast Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
Item 149165
Jensen residence landscape plan, Belfast, 2009-2010
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2009–2010 Location: Belfast Clients: Mark Jensen; Charmaine Jensen Architect: Miranda Winter
Exhibit
Belfast During the Civil War: The Home Front
Belfast residents responded to the Civil War by enlisting in large numbers, providing relief from the home front to soldiers, defending Maine's shoreline, and closely following the news from soldiers and from various battles.
Exhibit
Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye
The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.
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Story
How Belfast was the Chicken Capital of the Northeast
by Ralph Chavis
My memories of spending time in Belfast as a child when my father worked in the chicken industry.
Story
Why I came to Maine and what's kept me here
by Kate Webber
I came to Maine for college but then got involved in contradance and museums.
Lesson Plan
Longfellow Studies: Longfellow Amongst His Contemporaries - The Ship of State DBQ
Grade Level: 9-12
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Preparation Required/Preliminary Discussion:
Lesson plans should be done in the context of a course of study on American literature and/or history from the Revolution to the Civil War.
The ship of state is an ancient metaphor in the western world, especially among seafaring people, but this figure of speech assumed a more widespread and literal significance in the English colonies of the New World. From the middle of the 17th century, after all, until revolution broke out in 1775, the dominant system of governance in the colonies was the Navigation Acts. The primary responsibility of colonial governors, according to both Parliament and the Crown, was the enforcement of the laws of trade, and the governors themselves appointed naval officers to ensure that the various provisions and regulations of the Navigation Acts were executed. England, in other words, governed her American colonies as if they were merchant ships.
This metaphorical conception of the colonies as a naval enterprise not only survived the Revolution but also took on a deeper relevance following the construction of the Union. The United States of America had now become the ship of state, launched on July 4th 1776 and dedicated to the radical proposition that all men are created equal and endowed with certain unalienable rights. This proposition is examined and tested in any number of ways during the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. Novelists and poets, as well as politicians and statesmen, questioned its viability: Whither goes the ship of state? Is there a safe harbor somewhere up ahead or is the vessel doomed to ruin and wreckage? Is she well built and sturdy or is there some essential flaw in her structural frame?
