Keywords: orphan boys
Item 14291
Good Will Orphan Boy in the woods with an ax, ca. 1910
Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1910 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print
Item 14216
Orphan boys shoveling coal, Fairfield, ca. 1900
Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1900 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
George W. Hinckley and Needy Boys and Girls
George W. Hinckley wanted to help needy boys. The farm, school and home he ran for nearly sixty nears near Fairfield stressed home, religion, education, discipline, industry, and recreation.
Exhibit
From French Canadians to Franco-Americans
French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Fred Ryder, Bangor, 1864
"… Museum Description Fred Ryder was an orphan who lived with his uncle in Bangor. He sold candy on the streets."
Site Page
L.C. Bates Museum/Good Will-Hinckley
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Story
Sister Therese Bouthot:Life of service as a Good Shepherd sister
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
From humble beginnings to playing a leadership role in the service of others
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
