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Online Exhibits
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Lewiston, Maine's second largest city, was long looked upon by many as a mill town with grimy smoke stacks, crowded tenements, low-paying jobs, sleazy clubs and little by way of refinement, except for Bates College. Yet, a noted Québec historian, Robert Rumilly, described it as "the French Athens of New England."
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Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
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Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages
"… used as multi-purpose community meeting spaces, theaters, town halls, and granges. A 1991 study showed at least 66 opera houses existed in Maine…"
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Music in Maine - Rock and Roll, Punk, and Elvis
"… in Old Orchard Beach, Portland and Lewiston-movie theaters, armories, basketball courts and hockey arenas."
