Keywords: Community Garden
Item 105851
The Long Island Community Garden awaits gardeners, 2020
Courtesy of Nancy Noble, an individual partner Date: 2020-05-09 Location: Long Island Media: Digital image
Item 6627
View from the Garden Hill, New Gloucester, ca. 1907
Contributed by: United Society of Shakers Date: circa 1907 Location: New Gloucester Media: Photographic print, glass plate negative
Exhibit
Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland
The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.
Exhibit
In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age
"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Duchess Anjoulene apple, Bangor, 1866
"He also wrote and illustrated five volumes, reflecting on his life, experiences, and the communities in which he lived."
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Illustrations
"… Penobscot, his children, himself, his house and gardens, chairs he built, fashions of various eras, numerous buildings, including churches…"
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
Story
Somali Bantu farmers put down roots in Maine
by Muhidin D. Libah
Running the Somali Bantu Community Association and finding food security in Maine
