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Title: Student Activities Card, Farmington State Normal School, 1942

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF

Date: 1942

Location: Farmington

Media: ink on paper

Title: Mount Desert Reading Room

Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library

Date: circa 1910

Location: Bar Harbor

Media: Postcard

Title: Anti suffrage report on activities, Portland, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: circa 1916

Media: Ink on paper

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We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.

Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.

Protests

Throughout the history of the state, residents have protested, on paper or in the streets, to increase rights for various groups, to effect social change, to prevent social change, or to let their feelings be known about important issues.

Slavery's Defenders and Foes

Mainers, like residents of other states, had differing views about slavery and abolition in the early to mid decades of the 19th century. Religion and economic factors were among the considerations in determining people's leanings.