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Item 68910

Cadet Teaching Brochure, Farmington State Normal School, ca. 1944

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: circa 1944 Location: Farmington Media: Ink on paper

Item 103850

Americanization class, Portland, 1923

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1923-04-27 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative

Item 100058

Vera Cleaves, Women's Army Corps, West Point, NY, 1943

Contributed by: An individual through Westport Island History Committee Date: 1943 Location: Newburgh; Westport Island Media: Photographic print

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Girls playing basketball, Naples, ca. 1930

Summer Camps

Maine is home to dozens of summer-long youth camps and untold numbers of day camps that take advantage of water, woods, and fresh air. While the children, counselors, and other staff come to Maine in the summer, the camps live on throughout the year and throughout the lives of many of the campers.

Exhibit

Students on porch, Farmington State Normal School, ca. 1928

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.

Exhibit

W. E. Chandler's Band, Kennebunkport, 1910

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.