Keywords: Death
Item 80403
Condolences to Sarah Tarbox from cousin Mary Patten, 1848
Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: 1848-10-28 Location: Westport; Litchfield Corners Media: Ink on paper
Item 101439
John Martin note on children's deaths, Bangor, ca. 1899
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Date: circa 1899 Location: Bangor Media: Ink on paper
Item 150987
Clement F. Robinson residence at 33 Carroll St., Portland, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1901
Location: Portland
Client: Clement F. Robinson
Architect: Frederick A. Tompson
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Item 151646
Robinson house alterations, Portland, 1925-1940
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1925–1940 Location: Portland Client: Clement F. Robinson Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
Enemies at Sea, Companions in Death
Lt. William Burrows and Commander Samuel Blyth, commanders of the USS Enterprise and the HMS Boxer, led their ships and crews in Battle in Muscongus Bay on Sept. 5, 1813. The American ship was victorious, but both captains were killed. Portland staged a large and regal joint burial.
Exhibit
For the Union: Civil War Deaths
More than 9,000 Maine soldiers and sailors died during the Civil War while serving with Union forces. This exhibit tells the stories of a few of those men.
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - P.H. Tilson Death Notice
"P.H. Tilson Death Notice P.H. Tilson died on July 21, 1861 at the Battle of Bull Run. The goal of the battle was to force the Confederates to…"
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Blizzard Poems
"… plow’s success died down difficult transportation troubled vehicles Deaths 56 seamen, 5 others on the Turnpike, and 2 lobstermen By Emma Wilson"
Story
Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey
Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics
Story
November 1st on Horseshoe Pond
by Susan Mancine
A poem about the loss of three elderly relatives
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.
Lesson Plan
Longfellow Studies: "The Poet's Tale - The Birds of Killingworth"
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: English Language Arts, Science & Engineering, Social Studies
This poem is one of the numerous tales in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Tales of the Wayside Inn. The collection was published in three parts between 1863 and 1873. This series of long narrative poems were written by Longfellow during the most difficult personal time of his life. While mourning the tragic death of his second wife (Fanny Appleton Longfellow) he produced this ambitious undertaking. During this same period he translated Dante's Inferno from Italian to English. "The Poet's Tale" is a humorous poem with a strong environmental message which reflects Longfellow's Unitarian outlook on life.
