Keywords: flag pole
Item 26463
Good Will Boys Pulling Up the Flag Pole, Fairfield, 1915
Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1915 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print
Item 26462
Raising the flag pole, Good Will Home, Fairfield, ca. 1915
Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1915 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Imagery on letterhead soldiers used, on soldiers' memorials produced after the war, and on many other items captured the themes of the American Civil War: union, liberty, and freedom.
Exhibit
A Portland newspaper wrote about an ice storm of January 28, 1886 saying, "The city of Portland was visited yesterday by the most inconvenient storm of the season."
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 4 of 4
"… Society & Museum Generally, the American flag hangs from a pole outside every school. Every day, children would go outside to recite the Pledge…"
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru
"… before the American flag was common, a Liberty Pole was the emblem of patriotism, so it was befitting that a Liberty Pole should be erected on the…"
Story
My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne
Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima
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
