Keywords: Civic Organization
Item 40465
Kiwanis Club clambake, Scarborough, 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1920-08-07 Location: Scarborough Media: Glass Negative
Item 40475
Portland Kiwanis reunion, Scarborough, 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1920-08-07 Location: Scarborough Media: Glass Negative
Item 151491
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1925–1926 Location: Saco Client: York Institute Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
A Celebration of Skilled Artisans
The Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, an organization formed to promote and support skilled craftsmen, celebrated civic pride and members' trades with a parade through Portland on Oct. 8, 1841 at which they displayed 17 painted linen banners with graphic and textual representations of the artisans' skills.
Exhibit
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.
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Site Page
Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 1 of 2
"… the charge for complete separation and organized a meeting to discuss the organization of a future convention regarding independence."
Story
Lift the Boats for Everybody
by Andrea Cianchette Maker
The story of her immigrant great grandfather and her nonprofit organization Focus Maine.
Story
ROCK AND ROLL CONCERTS OF SOUTHERN MAINE
by Ford Reiche
A story about Rock and Roll in Maine, 1955-1977
Lesson Plan
Building Community/Community Buildings
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: Social Studies
Where do people gather? What defines a community? What buildings allow people to congregate to celebrate, learn, debate, vote, and take part in all manner of community activities? Students will evaluate images and primary documents from throughout Maine’s history, and look at some of Maine’s earliest gathering spaces and organizations, and how many communities established themselves around certain types of buildings. Students will make connections between the community buildings of the past and the ways we express identity and create communities today.