Keywords: Uncle Sam
Item 76613
Uncle Sam celebrates Hartland's sesquicentennial, 1970
Contributed by: Cheryl Vigue through Hartland Historical Society Date: 1970-06-27 Location: Hartland Media: Photographic print
Item 76615
Uncle Sam in Sesquicentennial Senior Parade, Hartland, 1970
Contributed by: Cheryl Vigue through Hartland Historical Society Date: 1970-06-27 Location: Hartland Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
"Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"
Concern about immigrants and their loyalty in the post World War I era led to programs to "Americanize" them -- an effort to help them learn English and otherwise adjust to life in the United States. Clara Soule ran one such program for the Portland Public Schools, hoping it would help the immigrants be accepted.
Exhibit
An enduring element of summer camps is the songs campers sing around the campfire, at meals, and on many other occasions. Some regale the camp experience and others spur the camp's athletes on to victory.
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware Store window display, Lincoln, ca. 1943
"… is some Beatham" "Archer boy & (illegible) at right of Uncle Sam" View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."
Site Page
Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES
"(N, M) Everybody's Uncle Sam: the life and legacy of Sam L. Cohen. Sam L. Cohen Foundation, GabbeLights Productions, 2009. DVD."
Story
My Life in Boxing
by Bob Russo
Bob Russo on boxing and his life in Portland
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
