Keywords: Religious camps
Item 9972
Acting Out Bible Stories, Camp Lanier, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Eliot Media: Photoprint
Item 9970
Lanier Camp Bible Drama, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Eliot Media: Photoprint
Exhibit
Maine is home to dozens of summer-long youth camps and untold numbers of day camps that take advantage of water, woods, and fresh air. While the children, counselors, and other staff come to Maine in the summer, the camps live on throughout the year and throughout the lives of many of the campers.
Exhibit
From French Canadians to Franco-Americans
French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Millerite camp meeting, Orrington, 1844
"… Museum Description The Millerites, a religious group who believed that Jesus would reappear on earth between March 21, 1843 and March 21…"
Site Page
Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"… Historical Society The first recorded religious meeting on Islesboro took place in 1791, in the barn of Joseph Boardman."
Story
Lloyd LaFountain III family legacy and creating own path
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
Lloyd followed in his family’s footsteps of serving Biddeford and the State of Maine.
