Keywords: American Flags
Item 102562
American Legion Legionnaire, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1930 Media: Glass Negative
Item 14694
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1898 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 89330
Kavanagh property, South Side Fern Avenue, Long Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Martin H. Kavanagh Use: Summer Dwelling
Exhibit
"Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"
Concern about immigrants and their loyalty in the post World War I era led to programs to "Americanize" them -- an effort to help them learn English and otherwise adjust to life in the United States. Clara Soule ran one such program for the Portland Public Schools, hoping it would help the immigrants be accepted.
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.
Site Page
"Flags were to be seen everywhere, and the demand for red, white, and blue ribbons exhausted the millinery shops in short metre.” The first two weeks…"
Site Page
Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine
"In the end of 1899 a flag station was finished and the trains started transporting passengers. The Bangor and Aroostook Railroad began delivering…"
Story
How 20 years in the Navy turned me into an active volunteer
by Joy Asuncion
My service didn't end when I retired from the Navy
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
