Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Frederick A. Edwards

"… had to find some other person that can play sad music on the bagpipe. His family would have been one kid short of what they had."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… Aunt Mame growing up, including a shared love of music, photography, and dogs. Aunt Mame's house was a welcoming and nurturing place of fun and…"

Historic Hallowell - The Hallowell Union Fire Club

"… and local citizens would get together and use music in a parade going up and down the streets to express the fires they had defeated! Some of…"

Historic Hallowell - A Chosen Place ~ Once Again

"… life” but to aspects of creativity--be it with music, paint, food or words--that enrich our lives and aren’t a frill…."

Lincoln, Maine - Ballard Hill School, Lincoln, ca. 1930

"Reed, 9th grade; Miss Josephine Briggs, Music Teacher; Mr. Wright. The morning exercises were performed by Mr. Wright."

South Portland Public Library

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Waterville Public Library

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Allies & Allegiance: Military comradery at the Centennial, 1920

"… including an exposition, several parades, a music festival, visiting dignitaries, and international ships in port."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 1 of 4

"… youth culture, with its rock & roll and pop music, and move towards less formal dress stimulated growth of a new branch of the clothing industry…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… and Bowdoin College have some of his early music, which includes some musical presentations, in their library collections."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 2 of 3

"While there, he would play music at schools. After he left the army, Jeremiah went to UMPI for a semester."

Jonathan Fisher Memorial

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Franco-American Collection

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Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson

"He was also active in Portland musical organizations. Dying at the age of 61, Tompson was eulogized by the Portland Evening Express on February 3…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… and included magicians, dancers, singers, musical vaudeville, acrobats and aerialists, slapstick comedy and musical productions."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"… such orchestra performances from Bath's own musical group. The Columbian Theatre business rented the building and never owned it."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"There were several musical organizations, the first group of organized musicians that is recorded was in the late 1800s."

McArthur Public Library

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Sanford-Springvale Historical Society

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NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters Historic Site

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United Society of Shakers

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School

"… and kindergarten would be enlarged, a new art and music room added, and an all new kitchen and cafeteria."

Surry by the Bay - Surry Village School

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

Great Cranberry Island Historical Society

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