Keywords: As You Like It Club
Item 15977
As You Like It Club, South Portland, ca. 1910
Contributed by: An individual through South Portland Public Library Date: circa 1910 Location: South Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 14815
First Baptist Church, South Portland, ca. 1930
Contributed by: An individual through South Portland Public Library Date: circa 1930 Location: South Portland Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Desserts have always been a special treat. For centuries, Mainers have enjoyed something sweet as a nice conclusion to a meal or celebrate a special occasion. But many things have changed over the years: how cooks learn to make desserts, what foods and tools were available, what was important to people.
Exhibit
In the early 1600s, French explorers and colonizers in the New World quickly adopted a Native American mode of transportation to get around during the harsh winter months: the snowshoe. Most Northern societies had some form of snowshoe, but the Native Americans turned it into a highly functional item. French settlers named snowshoes "raquettes" because they resembled the tennis racket then in use.
Site Page
Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - New Sweden Athletic Club
"The club wanted to be known as a regular club but it soon became known as the New Sweden Athletic Club or NSAC."
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School
"Somewhere along the line you will get a chance to step up and take an opportunity." Roger Lambert, who had attended the Strong School as a child when…"
Story
The Wall
by Michael Uhl
What it means to have beaten the odds
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down