Keywords: Launch Party
Item 27769
Launch "Nimrod," Saco River, 1913
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1913 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Item 27762
Launch Yakima on the Saco River, 1914
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1914 Location: Saco; Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History
After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.
Exhibit
Several Mainers have run for president or vice president, a number of presidents, past presidents, and future presidents have had ties to the state or visited here, and, during campaign season, many presidential candidates and their family members have brought their campaigns to Maine.
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 4 of 4
"… this way until the fifties, when the Soviet Union launched the first spacecraft. At this point, the government insisted that the school curriculums…"
Site Page
Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"The Governor Brann was launched at I.L. Snow Company shipyard in Rockland, Maine at 10 A.M on May 19, 1936."
Story
My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne
Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima
