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Historic Hallowell - Classical and Scientific Academy

"… the more thorough training of the youth in such languages and in such of the arts and sciences as the trustees" should direct."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 1 of 3

"… out they had a lot to get used to, including the language. The first thing my parents noticed was the climate; snow, snow, snow, and more snow."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - George Francis Train, Bangor, 1866

"… hero of incendiary remarks and discourses in his language and principles throwing away the principles of a gentleman ..." Martin added, "This…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 5 of 5

"… valuable information about place names and language, which Wabanaki language keepers and scholars are using today, asserting agency over how the…"

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Franco-American Collection

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Historic Hallowell - The "World of Mirth" Carnival in Hallowell

"… up! It was a family carnival but had some mature language and attractions. Carnival, Fire Department, Muster Field, Hallowell, ca 1934Hubbard…"

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"

"… Portland had provided coursework in the English language and citizenship before, this effort, led by veteran teacher Clara L."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 3 of 5

"In Wabanaki languages and traditional stories, these relationships are paramount. It is difficult to talk about land or people without using kinship…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Project Process

"… of The Diary of Anne Frank is part of the English/Language Arts Curriculum, students were curious about what life was like for Bangor young people…"

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Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… as it was now known, the sounds of the Russian language were the sounds they had been taught to fear growing up during the Cold War."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 2 of 5

"The written language of the English as compared with wampum protocols and verbal agreements of the Wabanaki led to confusion and to deliberate…"

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Narrative History: Maine Swedish Colony

"… of the Swedes and became fluent in the Swedish language. William W. Thomas, New Sweden, ca. 1900New Sweden Historical Society In Maine, the…"

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Historic Hallowell - Our Work and Our Team

"… State Museum Cyndy Raymond - 7th Grade English/Language Arts Teacher – HallDale Middle School – RSU2 Sam Webber – Hallowell City Historian, retired…"

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Introduction

"… Americans named the Souadabscook Stream, which in their language meant “sloping ledge stream." (Eckstorm 1941) Continue to Early Settlement"

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Jonathan Fisher Memorial

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Lewiston Public Library

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"Croix River. In the Passamaquoddy language the river was known as the Skutik River. Several testimonies were given about the location of the true St."

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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"Called to Harvard in 1835, he taught modern languages there until 1854, when he resigned to devote himself to writing poetry."

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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 5 of 5

"… region, and as Wabanaki political and language activism demonstrates in 2022, Native peoples remain fundamentally invested in their sovereignty and…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… for example, has maintained their Maliseet language so that this region is known as the only place on earth where the Maliseet language is spoken…"

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry

"The language and customs of three countries—Sweden, France and England—were subsequently all absorbed into the community."

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"Stockholm was a tri–cultural town with languages and customs of three countries: Sweden, France, and England."

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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell History From a 7th Grade Perspective

"Raymond's language arts class. The search for pictures that would relate to their topic came next. The primary source images had to be searched and…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School

"… for low socio-economic status; Offer a foreign language to at least eighth graders - - Strong offers modern French to grades K-8; Enjoy a 95…"