Keywords: Landscape
Item 6962
North Anson landscape, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1860 Location: North Anson Media: Oil on board
Item 101079
Contributed by: Bethel Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Bethel Media: Photographic print
Item 151220
Landscape Design Associates residence and office, Bar Harbor, 1992-1998
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1992–1998 Location: Bar Harbor; Bar Harbor Client: Patrick Chasse Architect: Landscape Design Associates
Item 151803
Old Westbury Gardens, Old Westbury, New York, 1978-1992
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1978–1992 Location: North Hampstead Client: Old Westbury Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates
Exhibit
Good Will-Hinckley: Building a Landscape
The landscape at the Good Will-Hinckley campus in Fairfield was designed to help educate and influence the orphans and other needy children at the school and home.
Exhibit
Maine Through the Eyes of George W. French
George French, a native of Kezar Falls and graduate of Bates College, worked at several jobs before turning to photography as his career. He served for many years as photographer for the Maine Development Commission, taking pictures intended to promote both development and tourism.
Site Page
Architecture & Landscape database - Database Overview
"… this database includes architecture and landscape design commissions from ca. 1850 through the present."
Site Page
Architecture & Landscape database - Database Collections
"… currently represented in the Maine Architecture & Landscape Design Database, organized by contributing repository."
Story
From Brooklyn to Maine
by Samuel Gelber
Moving to Maine changed my artistic style, and I continue to learn from the landscape every day.
Story
Somali Bantu farmers put down roots in Maine
by Muhidin D. Libah
Running the Somali Bantu Community Association and finding food security in Maine
Lesson Plan
Longfellow's Ripple Effect: Journaling With the Poet - "My Lost Youth"
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12, Postsecondary
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
This lesson is part of a series of six lesson plans that will give students the opportunity to become familiar with the works of Longfellow while reflecting upon how his works speak to their own experiences.
Lesson Plan
Maine's Acadian Community: "Evangeline," Le Grand Dérangement, and Cultural Survival
Grade Level: 9-12
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
This lesson plan will introduce students to the history of the forced expulsion of thousands of people from Acadia, the Romantic look back at the tragedy in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous epic poem Evangeline and the heroine's adoption as an Acadian cultural figure, and Maine's Acadian community today, along with their relations with Acadian New Brunswick and Nova Scotia residents and others in the Acadian Diaspora. Students will read and discuss primary documents, compare and contrast Le Grand Dérangement to other forced expulsions in Maine history and discuss the significance of cultural survival amidst hardships brought on by treaties, wars, and legislation.
