Keywords: departures
Item 14359
Sending the Boys to War, Bangor, 1942
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: 1942 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print
Item 14072
Phil Boudreau, Louise Surrette, Bangor, 1942
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: 1942 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Following his historic flight across the Atlantic in May 1927, aviator Charles Lindbergh commenced a tour across America, greeted by cheering crowds at every stop. He was a day late for his speaking engagement in Portland, due to foggy conditions. Elise Fellows White wrote in her diary about seeing Lindbergh and his plane.
Exhibit
Scientist, author and explorer Donald B. MacMillan established Wiscasset as his homeport for many of the voyages he made to the Arctic region starting in the early 1920s.
Site Page
Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Wiscasset's Arctic Connection
"He chose the town as the departure port on many of his voyages to the Arctic and Subarctic. The departures were festive occasions."
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 278-361
"… life of his brother, Alonzo Raynes, including his departure January 31, 1849, for the California fields of California."
Story
Hooch Mum and my Vietnam service
by Jim Barrows
A poem about being a medic, saving Vietnamese people and babies. Sometimes we trusted too much.
