Keywords: Betting
Item 100735
Female jockeys at trotting park, Maine, ca. 1898, ca. 1898
Contributed by: Maine Central Institute Date: circa 1898 Media: Postcard
Item 69988
Kite Race Track, Old Orchard Beach, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1938 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Linen texture postcard
Exhibit
Anshe Sfard, Portland's Early Chassidic Congregation
Chassidic Jews who came to Portland from Eastern Europe formed a congregation in the late 19th century and, in 1917, built a synagogue -- Anshe Sfard -- on Cumberland Avenue in Portland. By the early 1960s, the congregation was largely gone. The building was demolished in 1983.
Exhibit
After the canoe, steamboats became the favored method of transportation on Moosehead Lake. They revolutionized movement of logs and helped promote tourism in the region.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Northern Maine Fair Memories - Page 1 of 3
"Dot, also thinks the betting has dropped. The attendance of the Fair has dropped because at the time when the Northern Maine Fair was in full swing…"
Site Page
"… the Federal government is surely a better bet than the State, but it is no less beholden by its own sense of superiority and changing dictates…"
Story
Beef Cutlet always reminds me of home in Iran
by Parivash Rohani
Making beef cutlet in Maine connects me to my home in Iran and my Baha'i faith.
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
