Maine Memory Network

Arbor Day, St. Agatha, 1923

Contributed by: Ste. Agathe Historical Society Date: 1923 Location: Saint Agatha; Saint Agatha Media: Photographic print

Arbor Day Program, Farmington State Normal School, 1887

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1887-05-10 Location: Farmington Media: Ink on paper

A Focus on Trees

Maine has some 17 million acres of forest land. But even on a smaller, more local scale, trees have been an important part of the landscape. In many communities, tree-lined commercial and residential streets are a dominant feature of photographs of the communities.

We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.

Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Village Schools

"… the old schoolhouse; the picnic on the last day, Arbor Day, and a Friday afternoon when the primaries and intermediate grades hung Maybaskets."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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