Keywords: American National Red Cross
Item 11795
Contributed by: Abel J. Morneault Memorial Library Date: 1918 Media: Tin, plastic
Item 73331
Red Cross Life Saving Class, ca. 1926
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1926 Media: Glass Negative
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CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections
Explore topics around climate change by reuniting collections from one of the nation's earliest natural history museums, the Portland Society of Natural History. The exhibition focuses on how museums collect, and the role of humans in creating changes in society, climate, and biodiversity.
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Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
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Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company
"… able to navigate the bureaucratic red tape of crossing the Iron Curtain and plan a tour in the Soviet Union as Nowick had hoped."
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"… have argued about the Indigenous past in the cross-border region, and as Wabanaki political and language activism demonstrates in 2022, Native…"
Story
Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey
Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics
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History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
