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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 4 of 4

"Every day, children would go outside to recite the Pledge and the Lord's Prayer. In the 1920s, the Pledge of Allegiance was introduced, and in the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"Three of his children became major public figures. Rufus represented New York in the United States Senate; and as a senator, worked on the Missouri…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 3 of 4

"It was used for most of the children's education, not only for its content, but for building basic reading skills."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Jacob Abbott and Fewacres, Farmington, 1903

"He wrote fictional books for children, most of them in series, and is credited with writing some of the earliest American juvenile literature…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The McCormick house

"… Stockbridge, Earl and Eleanor Tozier, Betty Staples Byrd (with her seven children), Vincent and Charlotte Bridges, and Sheldon and Tina Torrey."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Permanent Settlement

"James and Rachel (Gott) Richardson had eleven children and Abraham and Hannah (Herrick) Somes had thirteen children. According to Paul S."

Early Maine Photography - Portland Photographers

"… Alice Jane Means and the four photographs of the children of Stephen and Mariana Longfellow, nieces and nephews of the poet Henry Wadsworth…"

Early Maine Photography - Family Groups

"… his wife Harriet Spofford Pearl, and their three children. Following their marriage in 1839, John and Pearl Spofford moved from Massachusetts to…"

Early Maine Photography - Post-Mortem & Mourning

"… especially taking the lives of infants and children. If no painted or photographic image had been made of a family member, the post-mortem…"

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 1 of 2

"… portrait of Lucretia Day Sewall and five of her children is a striking image, in which the sitters look directly at the viewer, engaging us through…"

Early Maine Photography - MHS Early Maine Photography Collections

"Lucretia Day Sewall and her children, ca. 1849Maine Historical Society The early Maine photographs at Maine Historical Society are loosely dived…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"Schools could be in private homes, in converted sheds or other structures, or built "from scratch." Children walked to school unless the snow was too…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 3 of 4

"… the Scarborough Marsh is a classroom for school children, a delight for birders, a laboratory for biologists and naturalists, and a prime territory…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"The children closest to the heater were uncomfortably warm and had trouble fighting off drowsiness. The corners and front of the room were so cold…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - State Street Theater

"The price for children twelve and under was twelve cents, adults’ admission was fifteen cents. When the theater first opened, television was being…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

"… sat on separate sides and the younger smaller children sat towards the front of the room, with the older larger children in back."

Historic Hallowell - Johnny Stringer ~ A Character of Industry

"… also made dolls' cradles and bedsteads, for the children of the town, for whom he also had a store of broken--and must we add, to be truthful--very…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 2 of 3

"Many of them built graceful, stately homes throughout town--some even with winter homes "in town" and then summer cottages out at the Pool or towards…"

Kennebunk Free Library

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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 5 of 5

"… “Ideal location to pasture a horse, raise your children or just enjoy living in the solitude of a country home."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Andrew Smith Store

"They had two children: Lena E. Smith and Reverend Clarence L. Smith. Inez passed away in 1922, when Andrew was 65 years old."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The Tea Room

"They were the first family to have children in the house. Long-time residents remember playing ball in the 'field' behind the house, which is not…"

L.C. Bates Museum/Good Will-Hinckley

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Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"… Cross Road Cemetery in Surry in a row of Treworgy children who all died before their time. The young Olin FowlerSurry Historical Society…"