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Description
The Green Acre Inn hosted classes for its guests, often featuring religious and spiritual leaders from around the world lecturing "under the pines" in Eliot in the late 1800s early 1900s.
W.E.B. DuBois, the founder of the N.A.A.C.P. was one such individual, as well as Swami Vivekananda, Edward Everett Hale, Anagarika H. Dharmapala, Ralph Waldo Trine, Helen Campbell, Booker T. Washington and historian John Fiske, as well as many other notables.
About This Item
- Title: Green Acre, class under the pines, ca. 1900
- Creation Date: circa 1900
- Subject Date: circa 1900
- Location: Eliot, York County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: 25T
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Religions--Maine--Eliot
- Baha'i Faith--History
- Green Acre Inn
- Green Acre Baha'i School--History
- Eliot (Me.)--History
- Pines--Maine--Eliot
- Classes--Maine--Eliot
People
- Campbell, Helen
- Dharmapala, Anagarika H.
- DuBois, W. E.
- Farmer, Sarah Jane
- Fiske, John
- Hale, Edward Everett
- Trine, Ralph Waldo
- Vivekananda, Swami
- Washington, Booker T.
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Eliot Baha'i Archives657 Goodwin Rd., Eliot, ME 03903
(207) 439-9411
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