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Historical Items

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Item 68685

Motto book page, Farmington State Normal School, 1886

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1887-12-19 Location: Farmington Media: Ink on paper

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Item 68722

Motto book page, Farmington State Normal School, 1912

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1912 Location: Farmington Media: Ink on paper

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Item 74191

'A Calendar of Stray Thoughts,' ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Media: Ink on paper

Online Exhibits

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Bookplates Honor Annie Louise Cary

A summer resident of Wayne collected more than 3,000 bookplates to honor Maine native and noted opera singer Annie Louise Cary and to support the Cary Memorial Library.

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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.

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Graduation Season

Graduations -- and schools -- in the 19th through the first decade of the 20th century often were small affairs and sometimes featured student presentations that demonstrated what they had learned. They were not necessarily held in May or June, what later became the standard "end of the school year."

Site Pages

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Historic Hallowell - Values and Charity

"… feeling that we have done something, taking our motto “Hope on, Hope ever” let us labor on, trusting that our efforts may be crowned by the…"

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Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"X “Pride in Excellence”, the motto of the William S. Cohen School, reflects our academic strength and priorities."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"In Butterfield’s General Store, the men met to loan and borrow books to better themselves. Since it’s incorporation, Farmington has been without a…"