Keywords: Traveling acts
Item 105931
High dive traveling circus act, Waterville, ca. 1925
Courtesy of Henry Gartley, an individual partner Date: circa 1925 Location: Waterville Media: Photographic print
Item 23986
Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1903 Location: Bangor 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
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.
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway
"Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts. “An Act for Establishing a Turnpike Corporation Within the Town of Scarborough,”…"
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance
"… diversity of the area and eventually he took his act far beyond Mount Desert Island, performing across the region and on Broadway."
Story
Maine and the Atlantic World Slave Economy
by Seth Goldstein
How Maine's historic industries are tied to slavery
Story
Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey
Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics
