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Item 80447
Maine Central Institute Class of 1890, Pittsfield
Contributed by: Maine Central Institute Date: 1890 Location: Pittsfield Media: Photographic print
Item 66382
Gilman School rear, Kennebec Valley Vocational Technical Institute, Waterville, 1983
Contributed by: Kennebec Valley Community College Archive Date: 1983 Location: Waterville Media: Photographic print
Item 49148
96-114 Deering Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Maine Institution for the Blind Use: Apartment
Item 52868
90-96 Free Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Elks Home, Portland, Maine Use: Club House
Item 151491
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1925–1926 Location: Saco Client: York Institute Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Item 151456
Tides Institute and Museum of Art section, Eastport, 2015-2016
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2015–2016 Location: Eastport; Eastport Client: Tides Institute and Museum of Art Architect: Carol A. Wilson; Carol A. Wilson Architect
Exhibit
Carlton P. Fogg, Advocate for Vocational Education
Carlton P. Fogg (1899-1972) was passionate about vocational and technical education. While teaching at the high school level in Waterville, Fogg's lobbying and letter-writing helped create the Kennebec Valley Vocational Technical Institute in 1969.
Exhibit
KVVTI's Gilman Street Campus, 1978-1986
The Gilman Street building began its life in 1913 as Waterville High School, but served from 1978 to 1986 as the campus of Kennebec Valley Vocational Technical Institute. The building helped the school create a sense of community and an identity.
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block
"Bath Saving's Institution contributes to Bath's history in many ways. It's the oldest bank in Bath still running, having been in business since 1852."
Site Page
View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.
Story
What does a warming climate mean for Maine?
by David Reidmiller
Climate change affects all aspects of life. What does this mean for Maine?
Story
Warming Oceans
by David Reidmiller, Gulf of Maine Research Institute
The rate of warming in the Gulf of Maine is faster than that of more than 95% of the world’s oceans
Lesson Plan
Longfellow Studies: "The Jewish Cemetery at Newport"
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Longfellow's poem "The Jewish Cemetery at Newport" opens up the issue of the earliest history of the Jews in America, and the significant roles they played as businessmen and later benefactors to the greater community. The history of the building itself is notable in terms of early American architecture, its having been designed, apparently gratis, by the most noted architect of the day. Furthermore, the poem traces the history of Newport as kind of a microcosm of New England commercial cities before the industrialization boom. For almost any age student the poem could be used to open up interest in local cemeteries, which are almost always a wealth of curiousities and history. Longfellow and his friends enjoyed exploring cemeteries, and today our little local cemeteries can be used to teach little local histories and parts of the big picture as well.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow visited the Jewish cemetery in Newport, RI on July 9, 1852. His popular poem about the site, published two years later, was certainly a sympathetic portrayal of the place and its people. In addition to Victorian romantic musings about the "Hebrews in their graves," Longfellow includes in this poem references to the historic persecution of the Jews, as well as very specific references to their religious practices.
Since the cemetery and the nearby synagogue were restored and protected with an infusion of funding just a couple years after Longfellow's visit, and later a congregation again assembled, his gloomy predictions about the place proved false (never mind the conclusion of the poem, "And the dead nations never rise again!"). Nevertheless, it is a fascinating poem, and an interesting window into the history of the nation's oldest extant synagogue.