Keywords: Television dance parties
Item 103301
A camera operator films the final episode of the "Dave Astor Show," Portland, 1971
Do you know this cameraman?
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1971-06-26 Location: Portland Media: Film transparency
Item 103339
Dave Astor and Roger McKinney on the final episode of The Dave Astor Show, Portland, 1971
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1971-06-26 Location: Portland Media: Film transparency
Exhibit
Samantha Smith, a Manchester schoolgirl, gained international fame in 1983 by asking Soviet leader Yuri Andropov whether he intended to start a nuclear war and then visiting the Soviet Union to be reassured that no one there wanted war.
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.
Story
Dancing through barriers
by Garrett Stewart
My Dad performed on the Dave Astor Show in Portland during the civil rights era.
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
