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Historical Items

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Item 80798

Criterion & Star Tickets, Bar Harbor, ca. 1935

Contributed by: Raymond Strout through Northeast Harbor Library Date: circa 1935 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Ink on paper

Item 82216

J. C. Robicheaw & Sons seat delivery, Westbrook, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Walker Memorial Library Date: circa 1940 Location: Westbrook Media: Photographic print

Item 99411

Woodbury K. Dana anniversary celebration, Westbrook, 1916

Contributed by: Westbrook Historical Society Date: 1916-06-07 Location: Westbrook Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Memorializing Civil War Veterans: Portland & Westbrook

Three cemeteries -- all of which were in Westbrook during the Civil War -- contain headstones of Civil War soldiers. The inscriptions and embellishments on the stones offer insight into sentiments of the eras when the soldiers died.

Exhibit

Bookplates Honor Annie Louise Cary

A summer resident of Wayne collected more than 3,000 bookplates to honor Maine native and noted opera singer Annie Louise Cary and to support the Cary Memorial Library.

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Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

Site Pages

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Perry Opera House

"It was renamed the Perry Theatre, and had a sixty foot semicircular stage. In 1930, the building was purchased by Northern National Bank, and named…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"… in front of the ticket booth at the Braden Theatre on Main Street in Presque Isle, one would see a “cornerstone” of the Braden Theatre placed when…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… rustic, informal, and unpretentious.” Star Theatre AdvertisementNortheast Harbor Library The theatre featured silent-film movies with live…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Memories of working at the Criterion Theatre
by Vernon L. Cox

Working as a teenager with projectionest Roy Blake at the Criterion Theater