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Keywords: Colored Giants

Historical Items

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Item 108967

Farmington State Normal School men's basketball team, 1934

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1934 Location: Farmington Media: photograph

Item 37510

West Quoddy Head Light, Lubec, ca. 1860

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1860 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print

Item 27885

Front Street, Bath, ca. 1903

Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: circa 1903 Location: Bath; Bath Media: Postcard

Online Exhibits

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Les Raquetteurs

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.

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Gifts From Gluskabe: Maine Indian Artforms

According to legend, the Great Spirit created Gluskabe, who shaped the world of the Native People of Maine, and taught them how to use and respect the land and the resources around them. This exhibit celebrates the gifts of Gluskabe with Maine Indian art works from the early nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries.

Exhibit

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.

Site Pages

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Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… long dark beards and uniforms, and the Colored Giants, an all-Negro team renowned for their razzle-dazzle."

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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My Maine Stories

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Story

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.

Story

Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR