Keywords: track team
Item 67526
Championship track team, Strong High School, 1930
Contributed by: Mr. & Mrs. Roger Lambert through Strong Historical Society Date: 1930 Location: Strong Media: Photographic print
Item 81203
Monson Academy State Championship Track Team, Monson, 1935
Contributed by: Monson Historical Society Date: 1935 Location: Monson Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.
Exhibit
Black soldiers served in Maine during World War II, assigned in small numbers throughout the state to guard Grand Trunk rail lines from a possible German attack. The soldiers, who lived in railroad cars near their posts often interacted with local residents.
Site Page
"Spikes are the things that hold the railroad track together. The train fell off the tracks in my yard once when I was little, and it rolled over."
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About Us - Page 1 of 3
"… to the family homestead and has become active in tracking down the many unidentified people and unknown locations in Society’s archived photos."
Story
My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne
Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima