Keywords: Drum and Bugle Corp
Item 31807
Guilford Sons of American Legion Drum, 1940
Contributed by: Guilford Historical Society Date: 1940 Location: Guilford Media: Steel, skin
Item 18835
American Legion Post 47 Drum and Bugle Corps, Houlton, 1932
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1932-06-23 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
In the early 1600s, French explorers and colonizers in the New World quickly adopted a Native American mode of transportation to get around during the harsh winter months: the snowshoe. Most Northern societies had some form of snowshoe, but the Native Americans turned it into a highly functional item. French settlers named snowshoes "raquettes" because they resembled the tennis racket then in use.
