Keywords: Lay Preacher
Item 20235
Mr. and Mrs. Nils Olson, New Sweden, ca. 1870
Contributed by: New Sweden Historical Society Date: circa 1870 Location: New Sweden Media: Photographic print
Item 112088
Pejepscot Company Records, Volume 5, 1673–1856
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1673–1856
Location: Brunswick; Topsham
Media: Ink on paper
This record contains 546 images.
Exhibit
Anglo-Americans in northern New England sometimes interpreted their own anxieties about the Wilderness, their faith, and their conflicts with Native Americans as signs that the Devil and his handmaidens, witches, were active in their midst.
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.
Story
Surprise Preacher in Corinna
by Sarah Mount Elewononi
What the wife of Rev. Wright did when she found out she was expected to preach on short notice.
