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Rice specimen penmanship, Portland, 1819

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1819 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper, watercolor

Frank L. and Annie Spear Rice's home in East Boothbay, ca. 1914

Contributed by: Boothbay Region Historical Society Date: circa 1914 Location: East Boothbay Media: Photographic print

Rice property, Bay Avenue, Great Diamond Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: John H. Rice Use: Summer Dwelling

Rice property, Sunset Avenue, Great Diamond Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Henrietta D Rice Use: Summer Dwelling

Waterford Library, Waterford, 1937

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1930–1937 Location: Waterford Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

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.

The World's Largest Oxen

Named for the two largest things in Maine at the turn of the 20th century, Mt. Katahdin and Granger of Stetson, were known as the Largest Oxen in the World. Unable to do farm work because of their size, they visited fairs and agricultural events around the Northeast.

John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 8, pages 135-150

"… Transport ship Charles Thomas Transport ship John Rice 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Col. Russell B. Shepherd Fenian Brotherhood Fenian uniform John…"

Waterford Historical Society

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Share your COVID-19 story for future generations
by Steve Bromage and Jamie Rice, Maine Historical Society

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Father Renald Labarre: the life of a Catholic priest
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

A Biddeford native provides insights on his Franco-American roots and life as a Catholic priest.

Longfellow Studies: "The Slave's Dream"

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12 Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
In December of 1842 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Poems on Slavery was published. "The Slave's Dream" is one of eight anti-slavery poems in the collection. A beautifully crafted and emotionally moving poem, it mesmerizes the reader with the last thoughts of an African King bound to slavery, as he lies dying in a field of rice. The 'landscape of his dreams' include the lordly Niger flowing, his green-eyed Queen, the Caffre huts and all of the sights and sounds of his homeland until at last 'Death illuminates his Land of Sleep.'