Keywords: Colored Giants
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
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.
Exhibit
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.
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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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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