Keywords: Community Theatre
Item 33742
Community Theatre Program, Guilford, July 3,1939
Contributed by: Guilford Historical Society Date: 1939-07-03 Location: Guilford Media: Ink on paper
Item 29283
Guilford Community Theatre, 1939
Contributed by: Guilford Historical Society Date: 1939 Location: Guilford Media: Photographic print
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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.
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John Y. Merrill: Leeds Farmer, Entrepreneur, & More
John Y. Merrill of Leeds (1823-1898) made terse entries in diaries he kept for 11 years. His few words still provide a glimpse into the life of a mid 18th century farmer, who also made shoes, quarried stone, moved barns, made healing salves -- and was active in civic affairs.
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life
"In 1932 the Criterion Theatre, with more than 700 seats, opened in Bar Harbor. Depression, War, and Fire"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Dreamland and Liberty
"After the Liberty Theatre closed in 1923, the building then became the Liberty Garage in 1924 because automobiles were becoming more popular and they…"
