Keywords: Beach landings
Item 31644
Airplanes on Beach, Scarborough, 1921
Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: circa 1921 Location: Scarborough Media: Photographic print
Item 123
Maine Air Show, Old Orchard Beach, 1923
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1923 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Glass Negative
Item 86399
Gresley property, Beach Road, Cliff Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Emma C. Gresley Use: Summer Dwelling
Item 109361
Summer residence at Grand Beach, Me., for Dr. S.H. Weeks, Scarborough, 1898-1945
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1898–1945 Location: Scarborough Client: S. H. Weeks Architect: John Calvin Stevens; John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Item 111594
Cape Cottage Park, Cape Elizabeth, ca. 1925
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1924–1926 Location: Cape Elizabeth Client: Cape Cottage Park Company Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
Following his historic flight across the Atlantic in May 1927, aviator Charles Lindbergh commenced a tour across America, greeted by cheering crowds at every stop. He was a day late for his speaking engagement in Portland, due to foggy conditions. Elise Fellows White wrote in her diary about seeing Lindbergh and his plane.
Exhibit
The novelty of organized auto racing came to Maine in 1911 with a hill-climbing event in Poland and speed racing at Old Orchard Beach. Drivers and cars came from all over New England for these events.
Site Page
Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation
"… made an unexpected landing at Old Orchard Beach. Inclement weather at his original airfield necessitated his Old Orchard stop, which drew the…"
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 3 of 4
"… the following day, he landed instead on the beach at Old Orchard Beach. Lindbergh did visit Scarborough Airport that day, but via a motorcade on…"
Story
Ogunquit Beach Sonnet
by Shannon Schooley
Sonnet written for school when I was 12 years old.
Story
The Point
by Norma K. Salway
In the summer, on the eastern shore of Songo, kids dove from a leaning tree
