Keywords: ball games
Item 67305
Ball Toss & Catch Game, Strong Wood Turning Corp., ca. 1955
Contributed by: Mr. & Mrs. Robert Pike through Strong Historical Society Date: circa 1955 Location: Strong Media: Lacquered wood
Item 116
Children preparing to play baseball, Portland, 1927
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1927 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
Baseball often is called the National Pastime. For many people, baseball is encountered in the backyard and down the street, a game played by a few or the full contingent of a team.
Exhibit
Gifts From Gluskabe: Maine Indian Artforms
According to legend, the Great Spirit created Gluskabe, who shaped the world of the Native People of Maine, and taught them how to use and respect the land and the resources around them. This exhibit celebrates the gifts of Gluskabe with Maine Indian art works from the early nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life
"… and talent shows, as well as the annual Fireman's Ball or Way-Back Ball, where people dressed in clothes from an earlier time."
Site Page
Guilford, Maine - Special Events
"There was a large grandstand for watching the ball game, while hundreds of cars would also park in the outfield."
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
