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Title: Professor Fox and music class, Houlton, 1889

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum

Date: 1889

Location: Houlton

Media: monochrome photograph

Title: Reno sheet music, Mapleton, 1910

Contributed by: Haystack Historical Society

Date: 1910

Location: Mapleton; New York

Media: Ink on paper

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Title: Ricker Classical Institute Music Club, Houlton, ca. 1925

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum

Date: circa 1925

Location: Houlton

Media: Photograph

Hermann Kotzschmar: Portland's Musical Genius

During the second half of the 19th century, "Hermann Kotzschmar" was a familiar household name in Portland. He spent 59 years in his adopted city as a teacher, choral conductor, concert artist, and church organist.

Strike Up the Band

Before the era of recorded music and radio, nearly every community had a band that played at parades and other civic events. Fire departments had bands, military units had bands, theaters had bands. Band music was everywhere.

Songs of Winnebago

An enduring element of summer camps is the songs campers sing around the campfire, at meals, and on many other occasions. Some regale the camp experience and others spur the camp's athletes on to victory.

Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary

A look back at island life in Maine as captured by a team consisting of Swan's Island Educational Society representatives, which encompasses the community's library and historical society, a class from the Swan's Island School, and an Island Fellow from the Island Institute. Exhibit topics examine islanders at work and play, Baird's Quarry, old buildings, and the changing role of women on the island.

Nordica Memorial Association

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