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Historical Items

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Item 74768

Cooking school poster proof, 1964

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1964 Media: Ink on paper

Item 5644

Cooking class, Portland High School, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 103632

Food baskets, Portland, ca. 1934

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1934 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative

Tax Records

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Item 88186

Cook property, N. Side Island Avenue, Long Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Marianna Cook Use: Summer Dwelling

Item 85905

Cook property, E. side Island Avenue, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Abbie G. Cook Use: Summer Dwelling

Item 85168

Cook property, S. Side Ocean Avenue, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Abbie Geary Cook Use: Summer Dwelling

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 150930

Alterations to house at 171 State St. for Mr. Chas. S. Cook, Portland, ca. 1906

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1906 Location: Portland Client: Charles S. Cook Architect: Frederick A. Tompson

Item 151044

Cook, Everett & Pennell office space, ca. 1923

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1923 Client: Cook, Everett & Pennell Architect: John P. Thomas

Item 151525

Cook, Everett, & Pennell building alterations, Portland, 1945-1946

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1945–1946 Location: Portland; Portland Client: Cook, Everett, & Pennell Architect: John Howard Stevens and John Calvin Stevens II Architects

Online Exhibits

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Cooks and Cookees: Lumber Camp Legends

Stories and tall tales abound concerning cooks and cookees -- important persons in any lumber camp, large or small.

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Sugar and Spice: Our Vintage Recipes

Sugar and Spice: Our Vintage Recipes showcases historic recipes, dating from the 18th century to the 1950s, like sweet treats, traditional favorites, promotional printings, medicinal concoctions, curious libations, and recipes that have fallen out of favor.

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How Sweet It Is

Desserts have always been a special treat. For centuries, Mainers have enjoyed something sweet as a nice conclusion to a meal or celebrate a special occasion. But many things have changed over the years: how cooks learn to make desserts, what foods and tools were available, what was important to people.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 2 of 2

"The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation The committee sent a similar address to the citizens of Maine urging them to support…"

Site Page

Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 1 of 2

"The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation Overwhelmingly dedicated to independence from Britain, Mainers quieted any murmurs of…"

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Maine's Road to Statehood - The Coasting Law of 1789

"The Coasting Law of 1789 'Unity' and 'Margaretta,' Machias, 1775 The Coasting Law of 1789 required that merchant ships port and register at…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

The Cup Code (working at OOB in the 1960s)
by Randy Randall

Teenagers cooking fried food in OOB and the code used identify the product and quantity.

Story

Ramen Making
by Ayumi Horie

Ramen Making is about family, cooking, pottery, and what it means to make a life through one's hands

Story

Portland cuisine supports health in West Africa
by Maria Cushing

I present Portuguese inspired food to fundraise for Amigos de Mente

Lesson Plans

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Bicentennial Lesson Plan

Maine's Acadian Community: "Evangeline," Le Grand Dérangement, and Cultural Survival

Grade Level: 9-12 Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
This lesson plan will introduce students to the history of the forced expulsion of thousands of people from Acadia, the Romantic look back at the tragedy in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous epic poem Evangeline and the heroine's adoption as an Acadian cultural figure, and Maine's Acadian community today, along with their relations with Acadian New Brunswick and Nova Scotia residents and others in the Acadian Diaspora. Students will read and discuss primary documents, compare and contrast Le Grand Dérangement to other forced expulsions in Maine history and discuss the significance of cultural survival amidst hardships brought on by treaties, wars, and legislation.

Lesson Plan

Bicentennial Lesson Plan

Sporting Maine

Grade Level: 3-5 Content Area: Health Education & Physical Education, Social Studies
This lesson plan will introduce students to myriad communities in Maine, past and present, through the universal lens of sports and group activities. Students will explore and understand the history of many of Maine’s recreational pastimes, what makes Maine the ideal location for some outdoor sports, and how communities have come together through team activities throughout Maine’s history.

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Bicentennial Lesson Plan

What Remains: Learning about Maine Populations through Burial Customs

Grade Level: 6-8 Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual & Performing Arts
This lesson plan will give students an overview of how burial sites and gravestone material culture can assist historians and archaeologists in discovering information about people and migration over time. Students will learn how new scholarship can help to dispel harmful archaeological myths, look into the roles of religion and ethnicity in early Maine and New England immigrant and colonial settlements, and discover how to track changes in population and social values from the 1600s to early 1900s based on gravestone iconography and epitaphs.