Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Braden Theater

"It re-opened on Saturday, March 1, 2009. The theater still has three screens. The first movies that played at the re-opened theater were: “There Will…"

Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"… Society Like hundreds of other summer stock theaters popping up in vacation locales of New England in the 1920s and '30s, the Surry Theater…"

Surry by the Bay - Sawmills of Cunningham Ridge

"… along the saw, was short and referred to by locals as a "snap-dragon." Around 1906 Hollis bought a steam engine from the Blue Hill Inn."

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"He invited his Zen students, members of local choral groups, and anyone with interest to join him in performing Verdi’s Aida and Mozart’s The Magic…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… had been preparing for war as early as 1940, as local citizens raised money with dinners at the Grange Hall to assist Finland in their fight…"

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"… A Guide to the Research and Composition of Local History, By Anne Robinson Dolan (Thesis Project, University of Southern Maine) (1997) Photographs…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Welcome

"… X X What do you get when you combine local history, curiosity, and technology with 60 seventh graders and their teachers from Bath…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… well as a variety of local and touring concerts, theater and special events. Much of the original interior detail survives."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Partners

"… program that promotes collaboration between local schools, historical societies, and public libraries through the exploration and celebration of…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Artists and Inventors of Biddeford

"Whether it was portraying a "Mad Miser" in the theater, rallying patriotic fervor with World War I artwork, or inventing new technology to keep a…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… downtown of Bath evolved as a function of many local, national and international factors. Foremost among them is the city’s location on the west…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… been trademarked for its cultural, community, and local importance, while Centre Street has long been the main route for people to travel into the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Railroad Station

"… also avoid stopping in Bath and spending money at local stores. Many large department stores left Bath for Brunswick and Cook's Corner."

Architecture & Landscape database - Lost Gardens of Eden

"… new form or place, and fragments of others remain locally as reminders of a rich era. Ultimately, like a good family tree, they help us to…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"John Tucker was a local brick maker, and Captain William Patten was part of the important, ship building Patten family."

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"… and native materials such as wood shingles and local stone. While Stevens continued to work in the Shingle Style into the twentieth century, the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"… prescription at the pharmacy, watch a film at the theater and generally take care of their daily needs without having to leave the village."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Eureka Hall, Stockholm

"… just a holding cell, bowling alley, a movie theater, and a ice cream parlor. And even a not so nice piece of our past--the KKK meetings were held…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"Dude Cowboy advertising at City Theater, Biddeford, 1926McArthur Public Library Besides modern conveniences and entertainments, the city was…"

Franco-American Collection

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"The theater had a pitched roof, beamed ceiling, and square platform stage. For the elite set, there were reserved chairs in the front rows covered by…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"… theater companies, minstrel shows and the movie theater, showing silent films accompanied by a local piano player."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Architecture

"The building at various times housed a movie theater-hall-basketball court, bowling alley, pool hall, barber shop, variety store, town jail, and town…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… by the Bar Harbor Club pool, and traveling theater companies were visiting the village. Bar Harbor had its own horse track and a golf course where…"