Maine Memory Network

Thornton Academy Cadet, 1891

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: 1891 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

John P. Deering, Cadet Corps, 1891

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: 1891 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print

Strike Up the Band

Before the era of recorded music and radio, nearly every community had a band that played at parades and other civic events. Fire departments had bands, military units had bands, theaters had bands. Band music was everywhere.

We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.

Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.

John Martin: Expert Observer - Junior Martin in cadet uniform, Bangor, ca. 1871

"… and a few from the grammar school who formed a cadet company and began in December 1871 drilling with the Jameson Guards, a state militia group."

Learning to fly and instructing cadets at West Point during WWII
by Vera Cleaves

West Point during World War II