Keywords: outdoor theater
Item 29408
Riverton Park Theater, Portland, ca. 1898
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1898 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 10169
Camp Runoia girls in Vaudeville place 1913
Contributed by: Camp Runoia Date: 1913 Location: Belgrade Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Before the era of recorded music and radio, nearly every community had a band that played at parades and other civic events. Fire departments had bands, military units had bands, theaters had bands. Band music was everywhere.
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
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4
"… hall provided entertainment, as did traveling theater companies, minstrel shows and the movie theater, showing silent films accompanied by a local…"
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3
"… 1900 summer church services were held in an outdoor grove on the corner of Roxbury Road and Poplar Hill, near the Walton School."
Story
Lionel "Toots" Bouthot: A life filled with music
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
From the age of 5, a lifetime of contributing to the musical fabric of Biddeford.
