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Item 12112
Title: MCS campaigns for President in New Hampshire
Contributed by: Margaret Chase Smith Library
Date: 1964-02-10
Location: Groveton; Skowhegan
Media: Black and white photograph
Item 9604
Title: Margaret Chase Smith campaigns in Caribou
Contributed by: Margaret Chase Smith Library
Date: 1960-07-29
Location: Caribou; Skowhegan
Media: black and white photograph
Item 13180
Title: Blaine & Logan campaign flag, Westbrook, 1884
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1884
Location: Westbrook
Media: Photograph
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Several Mainers have run for president or vice president, a number of presidents, past presidents, and future presidents have had ties to the state or visited here, and, during campaign season, many presidential candidates and their family members have brought their campaigns to Maine.
Exhibit
Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Wiscasset generated electricity from 1972 until 1996. Activists concerned about the plant's safety led three unsuccessful referendum campaigns in the 1980s to shut it down.
Exhibit
Margaret Chase Smith: A Historic Candidacy
When she announced her candidacy for President in January 1964, three-term Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman to seek the nomination of one of the two major political parties.
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The history of a town bordered by the Kennebec and Sandy Rivers as depicted by students from Skowhegan Area Middle School working in close proximity with members of the Skowhegan Historical Society. Exhibits include the Skowhegan Island, farming, log drives, Benedict Arnold’s March, early settlement, Bloomfield Academy, Lakewood Theater, and the Abenakis.