Keywords: Blue Laws
Item 34800
Blue Hill Consolidated School, Blue Hill, 1939
Contributed by: Blue Hill Public Library Date: 1939 Location: Blue Hill Media: Postcard
Item 33858
Blue Hill Mountain fire tower, Blue Hill, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Blue Hill Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Location: Blue Hill Media: Photograph on paper
Exhibit
Post office clerks began collecting strong red, white, and blue string, rolling it onto a ball and passing it on to the next post office to express their support for the Union effort in the Civil War. Accompanying the ball was this paper scroll on which the clerks wrote messages and sometimes drew images.
Exhibit
Reading, Writing and 'Rithmetic: Brooklin Schools
When Brooklin, located on the Blue Hill Peninsula, was incorporated in 1849, there were ten school districts and nine one-room school houses. As the years went by, population changes affected the location and number of schools in the area. State requirements began to determine ways that student's education would be handled. Regardless, education of the Brooklin students always remained a high priority for the town.
Site Page
Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1865 to 1919: The Drys Gain New Adherents and Leaders
"… in founding reform groups known for using red or blue ribbons as their symbols. Dr. Joseph E. Turner of Bath was one of the first medical…"
Site Page
Rum, Riot, and Reform - Society Copes
"The chorus: I’ve got the blues I’ve got the blues I’ve got the alcoholic blues No more beer my heart to cheer Goodbye whiskey, you used to make me…"
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.