Keywords: European Theater of Operations
Item 9192
Navy patrol bomber, Presque Isle, ca. 1945
Contributed by: Presque Isle Air Museum Date: circa 1945 Location: Presque Isle Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
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.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Of The Arts Era
"In 1926, she joined a dance company operated by Kurt Jooss, a well-known Laban disciple and later she founded a well-respected company and dance…"
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row
"His son-in-law, Thomas W. Hyde, was the founder of B.I.W. 114 and 116 Front Street are part of the block of buildings built and paid for by John…"
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
Story
The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona
Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.
