Keywords: Outdoor activity
Item 152284
Children playing on a dirt covered playground, Portland, ca. 1925
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1925 Location: Portland Media: Glass negative
Item 152285
Children waiting in line for the slide on a playground, Portland, ca. 1925
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1925 Location: Portland Media: Glass negative
Exhibit
We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.
Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.
Exhibit
Building the International Appalachian Trail
Wildlife biologist Richard Anderson first proposed the International Appalachian Trail (IAT) in 1993. The IAT is a long-distance hiking trail along the modern-day Appalachian, Caledonian, and Atlas Mountain ranges, geological descendants of the ancient Central Pangean Mountains. Today, the IAT stretches from the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine, through portions of Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Europe, and into northern Africa.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Active & Casual Wear
"… Slide Show The growing and changing range of outdoor and indoor activities pursued by the general populace increasingly required specific…"
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Story
From France to Farmington
by Celine Couillaut
I arrived in Maine and never left.
Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life
Lesson Plan
Grade Level: 3-5
Content Area: Health Education & Physical Education, Social Studies
This lesson plan will introduce students to myriad communities in Maine, past and present, through the universal lens of sports and group activities. Students will explore and understand the history of many of Maine’s recreational pastimes, what makes Maine the ideal location for some outdoor sports, and how communities have come together through team activities throughout Maine’s history.
