Keywords: Religious orders
Item 6730
Shakers at winter sale, Poland Spring Resort, ca. 1920
Contributed by: United Society of Shakers Date: circa 1920 Location: Poland Media: Photographic print
Item 6625
Sisters Ada S. Cummings and Lizzie Bailey, Sabbathday Lake, ca. 1915
Contributed by: United Society of Shakers Date: circa 1915 Location: New Gloucester Media: Photographic print, glass plate negative
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.
Exhibit
Evergreens and a Jolly Old Elf
Santa Claus and evergreens have been common December additions to homes, schools, businesses, and other public places to America since the mid nineteenth century. They are two symbols of the Christian holiday of Christmas whose origins are unrelated to the religious meaning of the day.
Site Page
Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy
"Although she had no prior intention of founding a religious community, Catherine and two companions took vows of poverty, chastity, obedience, and an…"
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Odd Fellows Hall
"members. The hall was used for dances, social and religious gatherings, plays, concerts,bingo, fundraisers, town meeting, and the annual eighth grade…"
Story
Story of the "little nun"
by Felicia Garant
My grandmother made a nun's outfit for me
Story
Behind the scenes of the Mercy expansion
by Sister Ellen Turner
Sister Ellen Turner talked about behind the scenes planning of Mercy's Expansion
