Keywords: Will C MacFarlane
Item 6237
Artist's drawing of Will C. MacFarlane, Portland, 2001
Contributed by: Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ Date: circa 1915 Location: Portland Media: Ink or charcoal on paper
Item 10710
Brass Plate etching of City Hall stage and Will C. Macfarlane, Municipal Organist, ca. 1933
Contributed by: Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ Date: circa 1933 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
A fire and two men whose lives were entwined for more than 50 years resulted in what is now considered to be "the Jewel of Portland" -- the Austin organ that was given to the city of Portland in 1912.
Exhibit
In 1857, when Daniel Cough left Amoy Island, China, as a stowaway on a sailing ship from Mt. Desert Island he was on his way into history as the first Chinese person to make his home in Maine. He was soon followed by a cigar maker and a tea merchant who settled in Portland and then by many more Chinese men who spread all over Maine working mostly as laundrymen.
