Keywords: Personal narratives
Item 4170
Rebecca Usher, Hollis, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Hollis Center Media: Photographic print
Item 16720
Walter Hustus letter concerning army training, 1943
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1943 Location: Fort Myers Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
Exhibit
Lt. Charles Bridges: Getting Ahead in the Army
Sgt. Charles Bridges of Co. B of the 2nd Maine Infantry was close to the end of his two years' enlistment in early 1863 when he took advantage of an opportunity for advancement by seeking and getting a commission as an officer in the 3rd Regiment U.S. Volunteers.
Site Page
"NARRATIVE GUILFORD River-born, Resourceful and Resilient Aerial View of Guilford Looking EastGuilford Historical Society Like most towns in…"
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Narrative
"Narrative Head-of-Tide Text by David Bergquist, Ed.D., L.H.D. Image selection by Dana Lippitt, Curator, Bangor Historical Society; Bill Cook…"
Story
Biddeford and Maine Franco-American Hall of Fame Award recipient
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
With options to be a college French professor, became a lawyer, mayor, DA & District Court Judge
Story
Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey
Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics
Lesson Plan
Longfellow Studies: "The Poet's Tale - The Birds of Killingworth"
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: English Language Arts, Science & Engineering, Social Studies
This poem is one of the numerous tales in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Tales of the Wayside Inn. The collection was published in three parts between 1863 and 1873. This series of long narrative poems were written by Longfellow during the most difficult personal time of his life. While mourning the tragic death of his second wife (Fanny Appleton Longfellow) he produced this ambitious undertaking. During this same period he translated Dante's Inferno from Italian to English. "The Poet's Tale" is a humorous poem with a strong environmental message which reflects Longfellow's Unitarian outlook on life.
