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Item 67532
Title: Schoolyard sports, St. Peter's School, Lewiston, 1925
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: 1925
Location: Lewiston
Media: Photograph
Item 27063
Title: Islesboro High School girls' basketball team, 1928
Contributed by: Islesboro Historical Society
Date: 1928
Location: Islesboro
Media: Photograph
Item 53000
Title: Staged boxing, Fairfield, ca. 1920
Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes
Date: circa 1920
Location: Fairfield
Media: Photographic print
Exhibits Showing 3 of 12 View All
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From the last decades of the nineteenth century through about the 1920s, vacationers were attracted to large resort hotels that promised a break from the noise, crowds, and pressures of an ever-urbanizing country.
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World Alpine Ski Racing in Maine
Sugarloaf -- a small ski area by European standards -- entered ski racing history in 1971 by hosting an event that was part of the World Cup Alpine Ski Championships. The "Tall Timber Classic," as the event was known, had a decidedly Maine flavor.
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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.
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Site
The history of downtown Bath as created by the students of Bath Middle School, with assistance from members of the Sagadahoc History & Genealogy Room at the Patten Free Library and Bath Historical Society. Seventeen exhibits examine various historic blocks in the downtown section of the city.