Keywords: Civilian Military Training Camp
Item 13753
Co. A Fort McKinley, Great Diamond Island, 1931
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1931 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 7919
Cadet training camp musician, Harpswell, 1896
Can you identify the man with the autoharp?
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1896 Location: Harpswell Media: Photoprint
Exhibit
Putting Men to Work, Saving Trees
While many Mainers were averse to accepting federal relief money during the Great Depression of the 1930s, young men eagerly joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's most popular programs. The Maine Forest Service supervised the work of many of the camps.
Exhibit
George F. Shepley: Lawyer, Soldier, Administrator
George F. Shepley of Portland had achieved renown as a lawyer and as U.S. Attorney for Maine when, at age 42 he formed the 12th Maine Infantry and went off to war. Shepley became military governor of Louisiana early in 1862 and remained in the military for the duration of the war.
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Aroostook Historical and Art Museum
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Story
The Wall
by Michael Uhl
What it means to have beaten the odds
Story
Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR
