Keywords: St. Louis Convent
Item 9859
St. Louis Convent, Fort Kent, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Fort Kent Public Library Date: circa 1920 Location: Fort Kent Media: Postcard
Item 10189
Daughters of Wisdom Convent Chapel, St. Agatha, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Ste. Agathe Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Saint Agatha Media: Photographic print
Item 111882
Churchill House on State St., Portland, 1928-1934
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1928–1934 Location: Portland Client: Major Gist. Blair Architect: Binford & Wadsworth
Exhibit
In the early 1600s, French explorers and colonizers in the New World quickly adopted a Native American mode of transportation to get around during the harsh winter months: the snowshoe. Most Northern societies had some form of snowshoe, but the Native Americans turned it into a highly functional item. French settlers named snowshoes "raquettes" because they resembled the tennis racket then in use.
Exhibit
A fire and two men whose lives were entwined for more than 50 years resulted in what is now considered to be "the Jewel of Portland" -- the Austin organ that was given to the city of Portland in 1912.
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation
"Louis", in which he made his historic flight across the Atlantic Ocean only two months prior. Lindberg's emergency landing signaled to the people of…"
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How the first chapter Veterans for Peace was founded in Maine
by Doug Rawlings
Veterans for Peace was founded in Maine and is now an international movement
