Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro to pages 133-end

"… of the Dancing Fraternity (Model Assembly), and instructions for doing the Redowa, Spanish Dance, and Circular Waltz; various etiquette and health…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - SEE NOTES "What the book said to the Boy". Library bookmark.

"(They still are) This example employs a verse to instruct young persons on the importance of caring for books."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro to pages 91-132

"… and information about, comments on, and instructions for the Polka, and Virginia Reel. He also provides images and profiles of: Mrs."

Life on a Tidal River - Flood Exhibit Work

"All students received instruction on how to handle artifacts and how to scan these artifacts. They also learned how to do "Good History." One day…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"Deeds of indenture were to provide for the instruction of the children; the males were to be instructed to read, write and perform basic arithmetic…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Division of MDI Begins

"The selectmen were instructed to draw a line dividing the town. On February 22, 1796 the legislature of Massachusetts passed an act dividing the town…"

Life on a Tidal River - Cohen Students

"All students received instruction on how to handle artifacts and how to scan these artifacts. They also learned how to do "Good History." One day…"

Life on a Tidal River - Work on the Civil War Project

"All students received instruction on how to handle artifacts and how to scan these artifacts. They also learned how to do "Good History." One day…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Dancing Fraternity, City of Bangor, 1868

"… Acadian Hall, continued; profiles of members; instructions for dance steps; comments on dances   Pages 133-end Instructions on dance steps…"

Raymond H. Fogler Library

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"… to proven experts from the Indian encampment for instruction. Rusticators took great pleasure in seeing Wabanaki paddling skills displayed at the…"

Guilford, Maine - PROJECT OVERVIEW - Page 1 of 2

"During the Training, teams received extensive instruction on exhibit and website building. We hosted Dani Fazio from MHS for Photography Training…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Village School

"In 1937, formal music instruction began and students learned contra dancing and how to foxtrot and waltz."

Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"… the Bangor office, was sent to Lincoln to help instruct people on how to operate the new switchboard."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… of tourist brochures and guidebooks provided instructions to “rusticators” on what to do once they got there."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works

"… with me for that purpose, you will regard these instructions as the general outline of your duty… We must get out as much wood of our own this…"

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"Although surveyor Samuel Livermore was instructed to lay out each of the six townships, “six miles in extent on the sea coast, and no more,” Surry's…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"Instructions were given in private homes by citizens and parents with slightly more education than the average person."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Building Boom and Piers above the Falls

"I had previously instructed several to take hold of the matter and there is at present time as much building going on as at any time this year with a…"

Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"For example, the state soon passed a law requiring all public schools to offer instruction in personal hygiene and community sanitation."

Pejepscot Historical Society

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Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"I have instructed them and inform [ed] them to their Christian virtues. I'm in the district that lies between Acadia and New England."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Founding of the Farmington State Normal School

"… expense to the State, suitable buildings for the instruction of two hundred pupils for the term of at least five years.” Philip Eastman of Saco…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"… high schools with four years of secondary instruction, or to be responsible for the tuition for pupils wishing to attend such schools in other…"