Keywords: open year round
Item 33659
The Phoenix House, Scarborough, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Rodney Laughton through Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: circa 1920 Location: Scarborough Media: Slide, transparency
Item 27077
F.S. Pendleton Store, interior, Dark Harbor, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Islesboro Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Islesboro Media: Photographic print
Item 112000
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1888 Location: Sanford Client: Sanford Baptist Church Architect: Stevens & Cobb Architects
Item 111491
Isaacson residence floor plan and presentation drawing, Lewiston, 1960
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1960 Location: Lewiston Client: Philip Isaacson Architect: F. Frederick Bruck; F. Frederick Bruck, Architect
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.
Exhibit
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII
"The steamboat made a daily trip year-round from Swan’s Island to Stonington, Vinalhaven, Rockland and back."
Site Page
"By the village’s bicentennial, many of the people who worked year-round in Northeast Harbor could no longer afford to live in the village."
Story
I have thought about Vietnam almost every day for 48 years
by Ted Heselton
Working as a heavy equipment operator in Vietnam
Story
Peter Spanos fled the genocide in Turkey to Maine
by anonymous
Peter Spanos fled the Greek genocide in Smyrna in 1922, coming to Maine to work as a fruit peddler
