Keywords: Cellar
Item 8994
Birthplace of Frank A. Munsey, Skowhegan, ca. 1919
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1919 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print
Item 17091
Contributed by: Caribou Public Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Caribou Media: Postcard
Item 109511
Plans of House for Mr. F. W. Chandler, Brunswick, 1911
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1911 Location: Brunswick Client: F. W. Chandler Architect: Gibbs and Pulsifer Architects
Exhibit
Civil Defense: Fear and Safety
In the 1950s and the 1960s, Maine's Civil Defense effort focused on preparedness for hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters and a more global concern, nuclear war. Civil Defense materials urged awareness, along with measures like storing food and other staple items and preparing underground or other shelters.
Exhibit
Westbrook Seminary: Educating Women
Westbrook Seminary, built on Stevens Plain in 1831, was founded to educate young men and young women. Seminaries traditionally were a form of advanced secondary education. Westbrook Seminary served an important function in admitting women students, for whom education was less available in the early and mid nineteenth century.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Presque Isle’s Historic Fire Station
… (top floor), fire house (main floor) and jail (cellar). An addition was built in 1950 to house the larger ladder trucks.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 2 of 4
… had recess, they had to throw wood down into the cellar so that the teacher could get it later for it to be burned in a wood stove.
Story
Two-minute Tale of the Pandemic
by Nancy Creighton Collins
What everyday life was like during the beginning of the pandemic.
Story
Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall
Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.
