Keywords: Indoors
Item 65077
Playing dress-up on Cousins Island, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Yarmouth Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Yarmouth Media: Photographic print
Item 22816
Maine Street, Brunswick, ca. 1889
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1889 Location: Brunswick 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
Civil Defense: Fear and Safety
In the 1950s and the 1960s, Maine's Civil Defense effort focused on preparedness for hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters and a more global concern, nuclear war. Civil Defense materials urged awareness, along with measures like storing food and other staple items and preparing underground or other shelters.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Active & Casual Wear
"… The growing and changing range of outdoor and indoor activities pursued by the general populace increasingly required specific, activity related…"
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Presque Isle Outdoor Pool
"The city’s second pool, the Indoor Pool, was built in 1978 on the grounds of the Northern Maine Fair and opened to the public in 1979."
Story
My career as a wildlife biologist
by Ron Joseph
Rural Maine provided the foundation of a rewarding career as a wildlife biologist.
Story
My father's world - the old farm in Richmond, Maine
by Donald C. Cunningham
A story about my father and our family.
