Keywords: religious societies
Item 9845
Dames de Ste. Anne Banner, St. Agatha, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Ste. Agathe Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Saint Agatha Media: Silk
Item 100295
Free Will Baptist Society of Saco and Biddeford pew subscriptions, 1839
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1839-05-18 Location: Saco; Biddeford Media: Ink on paper
Item 40303
Assessor's Record, 1397 Congress Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Stroudwater Religious Society Use: Church
Item 148634
Portland Orthodox synagogue sanctuary, ca. 1954
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1954 Location: Portland Client: Congregation Shaarey Tphiloh Architect: Perley F. Gilbert Associates
Item 109583
Sketch of proposed building for French Catholic Society, Lewiston, 1881-1886
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1881–1886 Location: Lewiston; Lewiston Clients: Dominican Fathers; French Catholic Society Architect: George M. Coombs; Coombs Bros. Architects
Exhibit
MHS in Pictures: exploring our first 200 years
Two years after separating from Massachusetts, Maine leaders—many who were part of the push for statehood—also separated from Massachusetts Historical Society, creating the Maine Historical Society in 1822. The legislation signed on February 5, 1822 positioned MHS as the third-oldest state dedicated historical organization in the nation. The exhibition features MHS's five locations over the institution's two centuries, alongside images of leaders who have steered the organization through pivotal times.
Exhibit
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
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Story
Bob "Coach" Cote: Highlights from life of a Biddeford legend
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
Bob talks about growing up in Biddeford, sports, the fire of 1947, and closing of St. Louis High.
Story
The Mercy mission called to me deeply
by Melissa Skahan
Melissa Skahan recounted her admiration for the Sisters, as well as her years of work at Mercy
Lesson Plan
Building Community/Community Buildings
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: Social Studies
Where do people gather? What defines a community? What buildings allow people to congregate to celebrate, learn, debate, vote, and take part in all manner of community activities? Students will evaluate images and primary documents from throughout Maine’s history, and look at some of Maine’s earliest gathering spaces and organizations, and how many communities established themselves around certain types of buildings. Students will make connections between the community buildings of the past and the ways we express identity and create communities today.
Lesson Plan
Maine's Acadian Community: "Evangeline," Le Grand Dérangement, and Cultural Survival
Grade Level: 9-12
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
This lesson plan will introduce students to the history of the forced expulsion of thousands of people from Acadia, the Romantic look back at the tragedy in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous epic poem Evangeline and the heroine's adoption as an Acadian cultural figure, and Maine's Acadian community today, along with their relations with Acadian New Brunswick and Nova Scotia residents and others in the Acadian Diaspora. Students will read and discuss primary documents, compare and contrast Le Grand Dérangement to other forced expulsions in Maine history and discuss the significance of cultural survival amidst hardships brought on by treaties, wars, and legislation.
