Maine Memory Network

"Faust" advertisement, Biddeford, ca. 1915

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1915 Location: Biddeford Media: Glass Negative

Program, 'Faust,' Lewiston, 1930

Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1930-12-04 Location: Lewiston Media: Ink on paper

Monuments to Civil War Soldiers

Maine supplied a huge number of soldiers to the Union Army during the Civil War -- some 70,000 -- and responded after the war by building monuments to soldiers who had served and soldiers who had died in the epic American struggle.

Le Théâtre

Lewiston, Maine's second largest city, was long looked upon by many as a mill town with grimy smoke stacks, crowded tenements, low-paying jobs, sleazy clubs and little by way of refinement, except for Bates College. Yet, a noted Québec historian, Robert Rumilly, described it as "the French Athens of New England."

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"… operas, such as The Merry Widow in Lewiston and Faust in Biddeford, capitalizing on the opera craze in America during the late 1800s."