Keywords: Berwick Academy
Item 101869
Wentworth Homestead, South Berwick, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Old Berwick Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: South Berwick Media: Photographic print
Item 25313
Film of band festival, Portland, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Location: Portland Media: filmstrip, 16mm
Exhibit
Graduations -- and schools -- in the 19th through the first decade of the 20th century often were small affairs and sometimes featured student presentations that demonstrated what they had learned. They were not necessarily held in May or June, what later became the standard "end of the school year."
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Music in Maine - Community and School Marching Bands
"… Deering, Cape Elizabeth, South Portland, Berwick Academy, and Sanford parade down Park Avenue in Portland as part of a band festival.Maine…"
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation
"… the District of Maine (a distinction shared with Berwick Academy, which was chartered the same day)."
