Keywords: Little Leagues
Item 101147
Little league baseball team, Dixfield, ca. 1958
Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society Date: circa 1958 Location: Dixfield Media: Photographic print
Item 5502
Suffrage Referendum League of Maine calendar, 1917
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1917 Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Poland Spring: Summering in Fashion
During the Gilded Age at the end of the nineteenth century, Americans sought to leave increasing urban, industrialized lives for the health and relaxation of the country. The Poland Spring resort, which offered a beautiful setting, healing waters, and many amenities, was one popular destination.
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.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Student Narrative of MDI History
"… passed also near to an island about four or five leagues long, in the neighborhood of which we just escaped being lost on a little rock on a level…"
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School
"… a wading pool, tennis courts, a field for Little League games, a skating rink in the winter, and a new playground for little kids - a donation from…"
Story
Quinton "Skip" Wilson: different aspects of "standing out"
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
Recollections of life as Biddeford's only student of color during the 1960-70s
Story
Bert Gagne-from star athlete to community barber
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center Voices of Biddeford project
Bert’s personal account of his lifelong non-stop approach including his 60+ years as a barber.
