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Keywords: Cadet Drills

Historical Items

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Item 26694

Thornton Academy Cadet, 1891

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: 1891 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 27209

John P. Deering, Cadet Corps, 1891

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: 1891 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print

Item 27745

Thornton Academy Cadets, Saco, 1891

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: 1891 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Strike Up the Band

Before the era of recorded music and radio, nearly every community had a band that played at parades and other civic events. Fire departments had bands, military units had bands, theaters had bands. Band music was everywhere.

Exhibit

We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.

Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.

Site Pages

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Site Page

John Martin: Expert Observer - Junior Martin in cadet uniform, Bangor, ca. 1871

"… and a few from the grammar school who formed a cadet company and began in December 1871 drilling with the Jameson Guards, a state militia group."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Learning to fly and instructing cadets at West Point during WWII
by Vera Cleaves

West Point during World War II