LC Subject Heading: Christianity
Item 29079
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: 1891 Location: Lubec Media: Ink on paper, envelope
Item 104790
Frances Johnson at YWCA, ca. 1935
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Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1935 Media: Glass Negative
Item 109125
Bangor Y.M.C.A. building, Bangor, 1950-1956
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1950–1956 Location: Bangor Client: Y.M.C.A. Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
Item 109303
Greenville YMCA, Greenville, ca. 1971
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1971 Location: Greenville Client: YMCA Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
Lesson Plan
What Remains: Learning about Maine Populations through Burial Customs
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual & Performing Arts
This lesson plan will give students an overview of how burial sites and gravestone material culture can assist historians and archaeologists in discovering information about people and migration over time. Students will learn how new scholarship can help to dispel harmful archaeological myths, look into the roles of religion and ethnicity in early Maine and New England immigrant and colonial settlements, and discover how to track changes in population and social values from the 1600s to early 1900s based on gravestone iconography and epitaphs.