Keywords: Early airplane
Item 21557
First airplane mail, Old Orchard Beach, 1919
Contributed by: Old Orchard Beach Historical Society Date: 1919-10-29 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Photographic print
Item 104010
Model airplane competition, ca. 1935
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Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1935 Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
Following his historic flight across the Atlantic in May 1927, aviator Charles Lindbergh commenced a tour across America, greeted by cheering crowds at every stop. He was a day late for his speaking engagement in Portland, due to foggy conditions. Elise Fellows White wrote in her diary about seeing Lindbergh and his plane.
Exhibit
Passamaquoddy Indians from Washington County traveled to Portland in 1920 to take part in the Maine Centennial Exposition. They set up an "Indian Village" at Deering Oaks Park.
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 3 of 4
"He was a master mechanic who built his own airplane, and he also worked for a Mr. Jones who owned an airplane hanger in Old Orchard Beach."
Site Page
Owls Head Transportation Museum
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Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
Story
Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick
A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman
