Keywords: youth
Item 15764
Hampden Youth Temperance Society Constitution, 1839
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1839 Location: Hampden Media: Ink on paper
Item 23606
Youth Week Parade, Main Street, Calais, ca. 1945
Contributed by: An individual through Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1945 Location: Calais Media: Photographic print
Item 151909
Various buildings for State School For Boys, South Portland, 1908
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1896–1908
Location: South Portland
Client: State of Maine
Architect: Coombs & Gibbs
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Item 150252
Broad Street Arcade, Bangor, 1974-1984
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1974–1984 Location: Bangor; Bangor Client: unknown Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
Exhibit
Maine is home to dozens of summer-long youth camps and untold numbers of day camps that take advantage of water, woods, and fresh air. While the children, counselors, and other staff come to Maine in the summer, the camps live on throughout the year and throughout the lives of many of the campers.
Exhibit
The Establishment of the Troy Town Forest
Seavey Piper, a selectman, farmer, landowner, and leader of the Town of Troy in the 1920s through the early 1950s helped establish a town forest on abandoned farm land in Troy. The exhibit details his work over ten years.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Classical and Scientific Academy
"At the date of the will, and until June, 1888, it conducted a school at Hallowell for the education of youth of both sexes, of the grade and scope of…"
Site Page
Guilford, Maine - STUDENT CORNER
"… Guilford History as Seen Through the Eyes of Youth by 8th Grade Students, Piscataquis Community Middle School (Please note: Editing, including…"
Story
An Asian American Account
by Zabrina
An account from a Chinese American teen during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Story
Childhood Memories of Learning to Swim on Rangeley Lake
by Betty C.
Betty's two older sisters taught her how to swim on Rangeley Lake.
Lesson Plan
Portland History: "My Lost Youth" - Longfellow's Portland, Then and Now
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow loved his boyhood home of Portland, Maine. Born on Fore Street, the family moved to his maternal grandparents' home on Congress Street when Henry was eight months old. While he would go on to Bowdoin College and travel extensively abroad, ultimately living most of his adult years in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he never forgot his beloved Portland.
Years after his childhood, in 1855, he wrote "My Lost Youth" about his undiminished love for and memories of growing up in Portland. This exhibit, using the poem as its focus, will present the Portland of Longfellow's boyhood. In many cases the old photos will be followed by contemporary images of what that site looked like 2004.
Following the exhibit of 68 slides are five suggested lessons that can be adapted for any grade level, 3–12.
Lesson Plan
Longfellow's Ripple Effect: Journaling With the Poet - "My Lost Youth"
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12, Postsecondary
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
This lesson is part of a series of six lesson plans that will give students the opportunity to become familiar with the works of Longfellow while reflecting upon how his works speak to their own experiences.
