Keywords: local theater
Item 68368
"Princess Bonnie" theater program, Farmington State Normal School, June 1926
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1926-06-14 Location: Farmington Media: Ink on paper
Item 27954
Dreamland Theater, Front Street, Bath, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Bath Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Lewiston, Maine's second largest city, was long looked upon by many as a mill town with grimy smoke stacks, crowded tenements, low-paying jobs, sleazy clubs and little by way of refinement, except for Bates College. Yet, a noted Québec historian, Robert Rumilly, described it as "the French Athens of New England."
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
Presque Isle: The Star City - Braden Theater
"It re-opened on Saturday, March 1, 2009. The theater still has three screens. The first movies that played at the re-opened theater were: “There Will…"
Site Page
Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay
"… Society Like hundreds of other summer stock theaters popping up in vacation locales of New England in the 1920s and '30s, the Surry Theater…"
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
Story
COME OUT SWINGIN'!
by Brian Daly
I wrote a musical comedy about Lewiston hosting the Ali-Liston title fight in 1965.
