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Item 68396

Storm damage, Scarborough, 1945

Contributed by: National Archives at Boston Date: 1945-12-20 Location: Scarborough Media: Photographic print

Item 67954

Storm damage, Camden, 1945

Contributed by: National Archives at Boston Date: 1945-12-19 Location: Camden Media: Photographic print

Item 28913

Hurricane preparedness restaurant mat, ca. 1958

Contributed by: An individual through Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1958 Media: Ink on paper

Online Exhibits

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Civil Defense: Fear and Safety

In the 1950s and the 1960s, Maine's Civil Defense effort focused on preparedness for hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters and a more global concern, nuclear war. Civil Defense materials urged awareness, along with measures like storing food and other staple items and preparing underground or other shelters.

Exhibit

Samantha Smith's Questions

Samantha Smith, a Manchester schoolgirl, gained international fame in 1983 by asking Soviet leader Yuri Andropov whether he intended to start a nuclear war and then visiting the Soviet Union to be reassured that no one there wanted war.

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Amazing! Maine Stories

These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.

Site Pages

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"… who on land and sea freely offered their lives in defense of the union that they might transmit to posterity the priceless inheritance received…"