Keywords: structures
Item 5294
Clara Neptune at the "Indian Village" during the Maine Centennial, Portland, 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1920-06-25 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
Item 29358
Marsh Staddle, Scarborough, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Scarborough Media: Postcard
Item 41496
Assessor's Record, 108-112 Coyle Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: W Sawyer Use: Worthless Structure
Item 60006
63-65 Lancaster Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Herbert L. Berry Use: Worthless Structure
Item 151855
Hermann residence, St. Louis, Missouri, 1994-1995
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1994–1995 Location: St. Louis Clients: Robert Hermann, Jr.; Signa Hermann Architect: Patrick Chass; Scott Homer; Landscape Design Associates
Item 151797
Lash residence, Seal Harbor, 1993-1996
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1993–1996 Location: Mount Desert Clients: James Lash; Deborah Lash Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates
Exhibit
The rocky coastline of Cape Elizabeth has sent many vessels to their watery graves.
Exhibit
Practical Nursing in Waterville
The Maine School of Practical Nursing opened a facility in Waterville in 1957 and continued teaching practical nursing there until about 1980 when changes in the profession and in the state's educational structure led to its demise.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Second Generation & Permanent Structures at Asticou
"Second Generation & Permanent Structures at Asticou John II and Climena would outlive nine of their 11 children, most of whom died relatively young…"
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Story
Waponahki Rematriation
by Sherri Mitchell Weh’na Ha’mu Kkwasset
Women's leadership in Wabanaki communities
Story
We Gonna Be Alright and Say It Loud
by Ryan Adams
Creating artwork during a period of social and cultural awakening
Lesson Plan
Longfellow Studies: Longfellow Amongst His Contemporaries - The Ship of State DBQ
Grade Level: 9-12
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Preparation Required/Preliminary Discussion:
Lesson plans should be done in the context of a course of study on American literature and/or history from the Revolution to the Civil War.
The ship of state is an ancient metaphor in the western world, especially among seafaring people, but this figure of speech assumed a more widespread and literal significance in the English colonies of the New World. From the middle of the 17th century, after all, until revolution broke out in 1775, the dominant system of governance in the colonies was the Navigation Acts. The primary responsibility of colonial governors, according to both Parliament and the Crown, was the enforcement of the laws of trade, and the governors themselves appointed naval officers to ensure that the various provisions and regulations of the Navigation Acts were executed. England, in other words, governed her American colonies as if they were merchant ships.
This metaphorical conception of the colonies as a naval enterprise not only survived the Revolution but also took on a deeper relevance following the construction of the Union. The United States of America had now become the ship of state, launched on July 4th 1776 and dedicated to the radical proposition that all men are created equal and endowed with certain unalienable rights. This proposition is examined and tested in any number of ways during the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. Novelists and poets, as well as politicians and statesmen, questioned its viability: Whither goes the ship of state? Is there a safe harbor somewhere up ahead or is the vessel doomed to ruin and wreckage? Is she well built and sturdy or is there some essential flaw in her structural frame?