Keywords: dead
Item 11122
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1900 Media: Photographic print
Item 15330
Alder Stream Falls, Dead River, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Media: Lantern slide
Item 85940
Assessor's Record, 156-158 Woodford Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Rocky Hill Lodge Corporation Use: Dead Storage and Autos
Item 109215
Dead River Company service station alterations, Calais, 1947
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1947 Location: Calais Client: Dead River Company Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
Item 109231
Dead River Company service station alterations, Houlton, 1946
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1946 Location: Houlton Client: Dead River Company Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
Exhibit
Eternal Images: Photographing Childhood
From the earliest days of photography doting parents from across Maine sought to capture images of their young children. The studio photographs often reflect the families' images of themselves and their status or desired status.
Exhibit
Walter Wyman's vision to capture the power of Maine's rivers to produce electricity led to the formation of Central Maine Power Co. and to a struggle within the state over what should happen to the power produced by the state's natural resources.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Day 4 - Page 1 of 3
"A man was found dead because he was running a generator in his basement due to carbon-monoxide poisoning and that's what happened on day 4 of the…"
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ice Storm Poem
"This woven web of flashing silver was deadly. Trees cried out in anguish as their heavy limbs gave way to crack and separate, in turn crushing stiff…"
Story
Orphanage on Revere Street
by anonymous
An orphanage operated by a Mrs. Oliver on 54 Revere Street in Portland, Maine in 1930.
Story
An allegory about the Vietnam war
by Bill Hinderer
An allegory about my service in the Vietnam War
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.