Maine Memory Network

Red feather handscreen fan, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Feathers, fiber, ivory

Lillian Blauvelt in Romeo and Juliet, London, 1903

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1903 Media: Photographic print

Lillian Nordica: Farmington Diva

Lillian Norton, known as Nordica, was one of the best known sopranos in America and the world at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She was a native of Farmington.

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"Lush velvet fabrics were popular among the opera crowds.Opera attendees sought to mimic stage extravagance with top hats, tuxedos, floor length…"

Nordica Memorial Association

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… and would become the mother of a famous Opera Diva into the late 19th century. The Titcomb Family Lydia Titcomb's Parchment This is dated…"