Keywords: Roller Skating
Item 26504
Roller skating rink, Saco, ca. 1912
Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: circa 1912 Location: Saco Media: Postcard
Item 16925
Rainbow Roller Rink, Trenton, ca. 1948
Contributed by: Trenton Cemetery & Keeping Society Date: circa 1948 Location: Trenton Media: Postcard
Exhibit
Summer Folk: The Postcard View
Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."
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.
Site Page
Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"Plays, musicals, dances, movies and roller skating were held at Town Hall. In the 1920s, the old Union Hall was renovated and renamed Community Hall."