Keywords: Independance Day
Item 78674
Channel Lighthouse parade model, Lubec, 1990, 1990
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: 1990-07-04 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print
Item 20136
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Fashionable Maine: early twentieth century clothing
Maine residents kept pace with the dramatic shift in women’s dress that occurred during the short number of years preceding and immediately following World War I. The long restrictive skirts, stiff collars, body molding corsets and formal behavior of earlier decades quickly faded away and the new straight, dropped waist easy-to-wear clothing gave mobility and freedom of movement in tune with the young independent women of the casual, post-war jazz age generation.
Exhibit
The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?
Site Page
Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 1 of 2
"… at Separation Overwhelmingly dedicated to independence from Britain, Mainers quieted any murmurs of separation during the American Revolution."
Site Page
Maine's Road to Statehood - After the War: The First Victory for Separationists
"… to the United States took precedent over an independent Maine. Maine Historical Society The War of 1812 proved a trying time for the separation…"
Story
Bull Moose
by Chris Brown
The history of Bull Moose Music, one of Maine's favorite music stores
Story
Service in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan by MAJ Adam R. Cote
by Adam R. Cote
Military Service has had a deep impact my life