Keywords: Munjoy Hill
Item 82240
Munjoy Hill Reservoir, Portland, 1921
Contributed by: Portland Water District Date: circa 1921 Location: Portland Media: Lantern slide
Item 82231
Munjoy Hill Reservoir Break, Portland, 1893
Contributed by: Portland Water District Date: 1893 Location: Portland Media: Lantern slide
Item 64635
20-22 Munjoy Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Marcia H. Hill Use: Dwelling - Two family
Item 64723
97 Munjoy Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Joseph Winslow Use: Dwelling - Two family
Exhibit
Music in Maine - Music and Television
"Astor grew up on Munjoy Hill in Portland. He was a World War II veteran and a lifelong member of Temple Beth El."
Exhibit
Public education has been a part of Maine since Euro-American settlement began to stabilize in the early eighteenth century. But not until the end of the nineteenth century was public education really compulsory in Maine.
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Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 2 of 2
"… carpentry for houses and buildings from 1856 to 1871. The Weeks family resided on such Munjoy Hill streets as Beckett, Merrill, and Vesper."
Story
My Peace on Earth
by Dana Eidsness
She left Maine for school and vowed she'd never move back.
Story
Amato's Italian Sandwiches
by Charles V. Stanhope
Amato's Italian Sandwiches
Lesson Plan
Portland History: "My Lost Youth" - Longfellow's Portland, Then and Now
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow loved his boyhood home of Portland, Maine. Born on Fore Street, the family moved to his maternal grandparents' home on Congress Street when Henry was eight months old. While he would go on to Bowdoin College and travel extensively abroad, ultimately living most of his adult years in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he never forgot his beloved Portland.
Years after his childhood, in 1855, he wrote "My Lost Youth" about his undiminished love for and memories of growing up in Portland. This exhibit, using the poem as its focus, will present the Portland of Longfellow's boyhood. In many cases the old photos will be followed by contemporary images of what that site looked like 2004.
Following the exhibit of 68 slides are five suggested lessons that can be adapted for any grade level, 3–12.