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Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… involving the schools were not discussed in town meetings until school consolidation took effect, and did not involve the entire town, but just the…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"… a venue for concerts, summer theater, town meetings, and dances. Moving pictures were shown on Friday nights. St."

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Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement

"… unanimously supported at the 1793 convention, a meeting the following year concluded that total separation was requisite for the economic…"

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Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Maine State documents and Proclamations

"… a smoking gun, a document like a diary entry or meeting minutes or letters, that clearly spell out Governor Plaisted and his Council’s rationale."

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"This was very important, because once a range road became a town road, the responsibility for maintenance and improvement became a public matter and…"

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"A warrant for the first Town Meeting was issued on July 7, 1811. Hopley Yeaton grave, North Lubec, ca."

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Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"However these streets, atop the hill, do not all meet at a common junction. The otherwise unidentified photo below was taken at Church and Main, and…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"The first meeting was in the year of 1914. Another one of the pro-suffrage organizations was the Maine Woman Suffrage Association founded in 1873."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… the Asticou Inn where the main road of Route 3 meets the upper end of the Asticou Way as well as Asticou Hill Trail."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"In a 1981 meeting of the Rumford Historical Society, chaired by Virginia Weston, many of the former mill employees were present."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… well as Pagan’s letter to Ward Chipman about his meetings with First Nation people [insert links: mmn map…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"It was supposed to meet up with the Bangor Old Town and Milford Railroad. $30,000 to $40,000 was subscribed for the project; however because of the…"

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Prince Memorial Library

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Of The Arts Era

"… theater, sporting events, dances, concerts, town meetings, graduations, and other community functions."

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Life on a Tidal River - Bass Park: A History of Fillies, Fame, and Fun

"In 1978 Jimmy Carter attended a presidential town meeting at the auditorium. Bass Park has seen a number of top-notch musical arts such as Gene…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"The Mooseleuk Club voted at board meetings to which charities they would donate part of the horse’s winnings."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"However, Gould had a chance meeting with Charles F.A. Johnson who was in the lumber business. Johnson was thinking of retiring and thought perhaps…"