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Jacob Abbott and Fewacres, Farmington, 1903

Contributed by: Farmington Public Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Farmington Media: Engraving, ink on paper

Maine anti suffrage report, Portland, 1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1915 Media: Ink on paper

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Professor Woodruff house, Brunswick, 1906-1947

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1906–1947 Location: Brunswick Client: Frank Edward Woodruff Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Writing Women

Published women authors with ties to Maine are too numerous to count. They have made their marks in all types of literature.

Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Jacob Abbott and Fewacres, Farmington, 1903

"… writing some of the earliest American juvenile literature deserving of the term "children's literature." He and his four sons had a long…"

Ogunquit Beach Sonnet
by Shannon Schooley

Sonnet written for school when I was 12 years old.

In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood

An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.

Maine's Acadian Community: "Evangeline," Le Grand Dérangement, and Cultural Survival

Grade Level: 9-12 Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
This lesson plan will introduce students to the history of the forced expulsion of thousands of people from Acadia, the Romantic look back at the tragedy in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous epic poem Evangeline and the heroine's adoption as an Acadian cultural figure, and Maine's Acadian community today, along with their relations with Acadian New Brunswick and Nova Scotia residents and others in the Acadian Diaspora. Students will read and discuss primary documents, compare and contrast Le Grand Dérangement to other forced expulsions in Maine history and discuss the significance of cultural survival amidst hardships brought on by treaties, wars, and legislation.

Primary Sources: Daily Life in 1820

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12 Content Area: Social Studies
This lesson plan will give students the opportunity to explore and analyze primary source documents from the years before, during, and immediately after Maine became the 23rd state in the Union. Through close looking at documents, objects, and art from Maine during and around 1820, students will ask questions and draw informed conclusions about life at the time of statehood.