Keywords: World Trip
Item 102352
World War I veterans reunited, France, ca. 1927
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1927 Media: Photographic print
Item 102334
James Boyle writes to Joseph Murray regarding Paris Convention, Waterville, 1927
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1927-05-14 Location: Waterville; Portland Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
World War I and the Maine Experience
With a long history of patriotism and service, Maine experienced the war in a truly distinct way. Its individual experiences tell the story of not only what it means to be an American, but what it means to be from Maine during the war to end all wars.
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.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Bangor Commercial article on World's Fair contest
"… ran a contest in 1893, offering trips to the World's Fair -- the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago."
Site Page
Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company
"The trip provided further momentum to pursue Nowick’s goal of performing the Russian opera Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky in its original Russian one…"
Story
The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona
Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
