Keywords: Blackstone
Item 7677
Dental clinic, Pownal, ca. 1925
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1925 Location: Pownal Media: Photoprint
Item 109073
V.A. Simmons & Co. store, Searsmont, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Searsmont Media: Glass Plate Negative
Item 77830
26 Taylor Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Blackstone & Smith Use: Storage & Shop
Item 35601
885-889 Brighton Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Amos Ashnault Use: Store
Exhibit
Public education has been a part of Maine since Euro-American settlement began to stabilize in the early eighteenth century. But not until the end of the nineteenth century was public education really compulsory in Maine.
Exhibit
A Convenient Soldier: The Black Guards of Maine
The Black Guards were African American Army soldiers, members of the segregated Second Battalion of the 366th Infantry sent to guard the railways of Maine during World War II, from 1941 to 1945. The purpose of the Black Guards' deployment to Maine was to prevent terrorist attacks along the railways, and to keep Maine citizens safe during the war.
Story
The future of potato growing
by Dan Blackstone
Informed by six generations of potato farming
Story
Aroostook Potato Harvest: Perspective of a Six Year Old
by Phyllis A. Blackstone
A child's memory of potato harvest in the 1950s
