Keywords: public gatherings
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Site Pages
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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview
"… Society (BHS) deserves mention for its efforts at gathering and archiving valuable fragments of Bath history."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Culture
"… societies to meet, it served as a gathering space for citizens with common cultural concerns, and it was considered to be the repository of items…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - First balloon ascension, Bangor, 1857
"1, 1857, thousands gathered on the circus grounds Summer Street in Bangor to watch the ascension of a yellow silk balloon named "Young America." It…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block
"… building in the Columbian Block that was used for gatherings and group meetings; this building was the Columbian Hall."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Bar Harbor: Building of Arts
"… summer resort” and become a “nucleus that would gather to itself each year whatever might be best in musical and other art." A committee was formed…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns
"In this photo, three-quarters of the staff are gathered on the hotel steps. -Opulence to Ashes: Bar Harbor’s Gilded Century, by Lydia B."
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New Hampshire Historical Society
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Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2
"As a large crowd gathered to watch the disaster unfold, the fire consumed the Public Library’s collection of 70,000 volumes, valued at $300,000 at…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School
"… the cheers of students, teachers, and residents gathered at the school. The balloons represented the number of years since the Strong Elementary…"
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Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows
"… Historic Preservation Review Board held a public gathering to recognize the lifework of Gridley Barrows. His longtime friend Philip M."
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Poland Spring Preservation Society
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"… because they held secret meetings and other gatherings. They were for sure a secret organization."
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Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library
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Guilford, Maine - Guilford Schools
"… in 1812 the settlers of Township Six Range Seven gathered together and set aside $21.00 to establish Guilford’s first school."
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"… a social center at landing time when islanders gathered to exchange news and goods. Another form of transportation was supplied by the Maine…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3
"… Junior Mothercraft were organizations of women gathering together at each other's homes, sharing life experiences, exchanging recipes, discussing…"
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Early Maine Photography - The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection
"… (MHS), to provide a permanent home for the images gathered by the two collectors. The collection was again featured within MHS' 2015 exhibition…"
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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative
"… and religious meetings, and other cultural gatherings. Bangor was one of the first cities in the United States to have a railroad."
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Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2
"… Lubec Historical Society The bandstand, a prime gathering place for the public in an era larded with local musical organizations, stood at Main…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans
"… and people retained a food foraging/ hunting and gathering strategy until after the arrival of Europeans."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History
"Some entities existed strictly for social gathering with others were created to better the lives of local citizens."
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"… Neck (North Lubec) during the spring smelt run, gathered sweet grass and harvested shellfish, the remains of which have been discovered in shell…"
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Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians
"Curtis hired farm boys to go out in the woods and gather the sap. Scraping the resin from the trees was painstaking work, and bits of bark, twigs…"