Keywords: Virginia School
Item 79918
Virginia School and Pettengill School, ca. 1908
Contributed by: Greater Rumford Area Historical Society Date: circa 1908 Location: Rumford Media: Postcard
Item 68908
Virginia Porter, Farmington State Normal School, ca. 1907
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: circa 1907 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.
Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.
Exhibit
Rebecca Usher: 'To Succor the Suffering Soldiers'
Rebecca Usher of Hollis was 41 and single when she joined the Union nursing service at the U.S. General Hospital at Chester, Pennsylvania. Her time there and later at City Point, Virginia, were defining experiences of her life.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Dr. John Hubbard
"… attending medical school he practiced medicine in Virginia but returned to Hallowell in 1830 and set up his practice in a small office off Winthrop…"
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 2, pages 27-37
"Other topics and people mentioned are: Excerpt from book about Virginia, South Carolina 1849 crime reports"
Story
Choosing a Career in Country and Bluegrass Music
by Ken Brooks
How I became a country and bluegrass musician
Story
My life as a revolutionary knitter
by Katharine Cobey
Moving to Maine and confronting knitting stereotypes
