Keywords: Fall Race Meet
Item 9045
Bicycle Race at Fairfield, 1888
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: 1888-10-11 Location: Fairfield; Fairfield Media: Photographic print
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Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador
"The Bowdoin Boys" -- some students and recent graduates -- traveled to Labrador in 1891 to collect artifacts, specimens, and to try to find Grand Falls, a waterfall deep in Labrador's interior.
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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture
"… park.” This oval was created to keep horse races off of Main St. (More About Franklin County Agricultural Fair) U.S."
