Keywords: Sewing circles
Item 80411
Letter to Sarah Tarbox from B. Knight, ca. 1845
Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: circa 1845 Location: Westport Island Media: Ink on paper
Item 6392
Second Parish quilt, Portland, 1886
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1885 Location: Portland Media: Cotton
Item 151579
Waterford Library, Waterford, 1937
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1930–1937 Location: Waterford Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
Art of the People: Folk Art in Maine
For many different reasons people saved and carefully preserved the objects in this exhibit. Eventually, along with the memories they hold, the objects were passed to the Maine Historical Society. Object and memory, serve as a powerful way to explore history and to connect to the lives of people in the past.
Exhibit
Great Cranberry Island's Preble House
The Preble House, built in 1827 on a hilltop over Preble Cove on Great Cranberry Island, was the home to several generations of Hadlock, Preble, and Spurling family members -- and featured in several books.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life
"There were still sewing circles, where women socialized as they worked, but now fraternal and farmer's groups, such as the Grange, which reached its…"
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 1 of 4
"Printed circle skirt, ca. 1955Maine Historical Society Perhaps the collection’s nearest to a teen bobby sockster’s dress is a white collared blue…"
Story
My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne
Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima
Story
Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR
