Keywords: Dyer's Market
Item 13893
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1902-05-17 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Item 52210
Somesville Fire, Market Street, Saco, 1908
Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: 1908 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.
Exhibit
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.
