Keywords: Dance halls
Item 78859
Tuscan Opera House Dance Program, Dixfield, February 4, 1926
Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society Date: 1926 Location: Dixfield Media: Ink on paper
Item 79312
Dance Ticket, Tuscan Opera House. 1948
Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society Date: 1948-01-24 Location: Dixfield Media: Beige cardstock with black printing
Item 69047
915 Ocean Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Danish Park Association Use: Dance Hall
Item 73128
48 Riverside Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Dennis D. DeCormier Use: Dance Hall
Exhibit
Hermann Kotzschmar: Portland's Musical Genius
During the second half of the 19th century, "Hermann Kotzschmar" was a familiar household name in Portland. He spent 59 years in his adopted city as a teacher, choral conductor, concert artist, and church organist.
Exhibit
These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Dancing Fraternity, City of Bangor, 1868
"The waltz and polka were more intimate dances – couples dancing as partners, the man's hand on the woman's waist, the two facing one another – and…"
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Dance
"Once the Odd Fellows Hall was built in 1909, dances were held there. In the village of Atlantic, during the 1970’s, Mertic Morrison would have music…"
Story
Saturday Evening Dances at the Westport Town Hall
by Deborah G. Greenleaf
Fond Memories of Westport Island
Story
Portland in the 1940s
by Carol Norton Hall
As a young woman in Portland during WWII, the presence of servicemen was life changing.
