Keywords: Formal dining
Item 135786
Dining Room, Yellow House, Gardiner, ca. 1985
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1985 Location: Gardiner Media: photographic print
Item 69493
Home Ec Formal Dinner, Farmington State Normal School, ca. 1942
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: circa 1942 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Since the establishment of the area's first licensed hotel in 1681, Portland has had a dramatic, grand and boisterous hotel tradition. The Portland hotel industry has in many ways reflected the growth and development of the city itself. As Portland grew with greater numbers of people moving through the city or calling it home, the hotel business expanded to fit the increasing demand.
Exhibit
We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.
Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.
Site Page
Skowhegan Community History - Lakewood Theater
"… of the past have been retained in the three dining areas of the building. The wood and wainscoting are original as are the fireplaces."
Site Page
Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 2 of 3
"… not in uniform, nurses wear their caps to the dining room as well as to the classroom.” Another institutional tradition involved the Mercy Hospital…"
Story
Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR
