Keywords: guests
Item 102741
Dave Astor Show student guests, Portland, 1962
Who are these teenagers?
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1962-04-07 Location: Portland Media: Transparency Slide
Item 148827
"Sunbeam III" crew and guests, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Maine Seacoast Mission Date: circa 1940 Media: Photographic print
Item 151500
Guest cabin for Sandbar Island Camps on Moosehead Lake, 1954
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1954 Location: Sandbar Tract Township Client: Sandbar Island Camps Architect: Stevens and Saunders Architects
Item 150241
William A. Richardson residence & guest house, Penobscot, 1972
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1972 Location: Penobscot Client: William A. Richardson Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
Exhibit
Since the establishment of the area's first licensed hotel in 1681, Portland has had a dramatic, grand and boisterous hotel tradition. The Portland hotel industry has in many ways reflected the growth and development of the city itself. As Portland grew with greater numbers of people moving through the city or calling it home, the hotel business expanded to fit the increasing demand.
Exhibit
Music in Maine - Music and Television
"… program often included series regulars and weekly guests from area high schools. Series regular Tina Warming of Brunswick excelled at acrobatic…"
Site Page
"… construction was then used as lodging for summer guests who came to the island from urban areas of the Northeast for long term stays from mid-June…"
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - History Detectives
"… Native American artifact presentation Special guest Barbara Francis teaches the History Detectives club about uses of Native American artifacts…"
Story
2024 Maine History Maker Celebration Event
by Maine Historical Society
Maine Historical Society's 2024 Maine History Maker event, honoring Joan Benoit Samuelson.
Story
Dancing through barriers
by Garrett Stewart
My Dad performed on the Dave Astor Show in Portland during the civil rights era.
Lesson Plan
Longfellow Studies: "Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie"--Selected Lines and Illustrations
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: Social Studies, Visual & Performing Arts
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Maine's native son, is the epitome of Victorian Romanticism. Aroostook County is well acquainted with Longfellow's epic poem, Evangeline, because it is the story of the plight of the Acadians, who were deported from Acadie between 1755 and 1760. The descendants of these hard-working people inhabit much of Maine, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.
The students enjoy hearing the story and seeing the ink drawings. The illustrations are my interpretations. The collection took approximately two months to complete. The illustrations are presented in a Victorian-style folio, reminiscent of the family gathered in the parlor for a Sunday afternoon reading of Evangeline, which was published in 1847.
Preparation Required/Preliminary Discussion:
Have students read "Evangeline A Tale of Acadie". Give a background of the Acadia Diaspora.
Suggested Follow-up Activities:
Students could illustrate their own poems, as well as other Longfellow poems, such as: "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Village Blacksmith," or "The Children's Hour."
"Tales of the Wayside Inn" is a colonial Canterbury Tales. The guest of the inn each tell stories. Student could write or illustrate their own characters or stories.
Appropriate calligraphy assignments could include short poems and captions for their illustrations. Inks, pastels, watercolors, and colored pencils would be other appropriate illustrative media that could be applicable to other illustrated poems and stories. Each illustration in this exhibit was made in India ink on file folder paper. The dimensions, including the burgundy-colors mat, are 9" x 12". A friend made the calligraphy.
