Keywords: children at play
Item 68359
Children acting in "Tom Thumb's Wedding," Swan's Island, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Swan's Island Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Location: Swan's Island Media: Photographic print
Item 68006
Two children riding a snow horse, Swan's Island, ca. 1945
Contributed by: Swan's Island Historical Society Date: circa 1945 Location: Swan's Island Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Maine is home to dozens of summer-long youth camps and untold numbers of day camps that take advantage of water, woods, and fresh air. While the children, counselors, and other staff come to Maine in the summer, the camps live on throughout the year and throughout the lives of many of the campers.
Exhibit
From French Canadians to Franco-Americans
French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 1 of 2
"… X Miriam Kelley adds the vital role in survival played by her father in this recorded account. Coincidentally, the calamity occurred on the 125th…"
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Child Labor
"The children didn't get time to play or rest; and they would get sick from the damp, dark and dirty environment they worked in."
Story
Born in Bangor 1936
by Priscilla M. Naile
Spending time at the Bangor Children's Home
Story
Growing up in Lewiston
by Kathy Becvar
Growing up in Lewiston in the 1960s and 1970s.
