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Title: Patriotism Pageant program, Farmington State Normal School, June 20, 1917

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF

Date: 1917

Location: Farmington

Media: ink on paper

Title: Chapman School patriotism, Portland, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: circa 1920

Location: Portland

Media: Photographic print

Title: Civil War sheet music, ca. 1862

Contributed by: Fifth Maine Regiment Museum

Date: 1862

Location: Albion

Media: Ink on paper

Patriotism Shared

Post office clerks began collecting strong red, white, and blue string, rolling it onto a ball and passing it on to the next post office to express their support for the Union effort in the Civil War. Accompanying the ball was this paper scroll on which the clerks wrote messages and sometimes drew images.

Lexington of the Seas: A Narrative

The story of the capture of the British ship Margaretta by a group of Patriots in Machias on June 12, 1755 has taken on legendary proportions, some of them deserved, some exaggerated to improve the story and to move Machias more toward the center of the Revolutionary War narrative.

The Nativist Klan

In Maine, like many other states, a newly formed Ku Klux Klan organization began recruiting members in the years just before the United States entered World War I. A message of patriotism and cautions about immigrants and non-Protestants drew many thousands of members into the secret organization in the early 1920s. By the end of the decade, the group was largely gone from Maine.