Keywords: Rubble
Item 33578
View of Bangor from Old Court House, ca. 1882
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: circa 1882 Location: Bangor Media: Stereograph
Item 52175
Rubble from fire, Old Orchard, 1948
Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: 1948-10-04 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
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Historic Hallowell - Timeline of Cyclone
"Grover!s Grocery Store was struck with a mass of rubble. Little Vigril White was trapped inside the store when this happening occurred."
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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons
"… shape- even belt buckles were mixed up in the rubble. Collecting as many as she could find- eventually hundreds, she stored them neatly in labeled…"
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
Story
The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona
Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.
