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Historical Items

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Item 108975

Farmington State Normal School women's basketball team, 1944

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1944 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print

Item 69220

Athletic Entertainment Programme, Farmington State Normal School, February 21, 1902

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1902-02-21 Location: Farmington Media: Ink on paper

Item 33641

Snowshoe program, Biddeford, 1962

Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1962 Location: Biddeford Media: Ink on paper

Online Exhibits

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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.

Exhibit

World Alpine Ski Racing in Maine

Sugarloaf -- a small ski area by European standards -- entered ski racing history in 1971 by hosting an event that was part of the World Cup Alpine Ski Championships. The "Tall Timber Classic," as the event was known, had a decidedly Maine flavor.

Exhibit

Les Raquetteurs

In the early 1600s, French explorers and colonizers in the New World quickly adopted a Native American mode of transportation to get around during the harsh winter months: the snowshoe. Most Northern societies had some form of snowshoe, but the Native Americans turned it into a highly functional item. French settlers named snowshoes "raquettes" because they resembled the tennis racket then in use.

Site Pages

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John Bapst Memorial High School

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L.C. Bates Museum/Good Will-Hinckley

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Surry by the Bay - Late Twentieth Century

"… to benefit their citizens, including the athletic field and trail built on the Osgood lot behind the municipal building and the Veterans Memorial…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Dancing through barriers
by Garrett Stewart

My Dad performed on the Dave Astor Show in Portland during the civil rights era.