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Keywords: Civic Organization

Historical Items

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Item 40465

Kiwanis Club clambake, Scarborough, 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1920-08-07 Location: Scarborough Media: Glass Negative

Item 40475

Portland Kiwanis reunion, Scarborough, 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1920-08-07 Location: Scarborough Media: Glass Negative

Item 102743

Anthony Petropulos' Order of AHEPA membership card, Lewiston, 1964

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1964-01-18 Location: Lewiston Media: Ink on paper

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Architecture & Landscape

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Item 111663

York Institute, Saco, 1926

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1925–1926 Location: Saco Client: York Institute Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

A Celebration of Skilled Artisans

The Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, an organization formed to promote and support skilled craftsmen, celebrated civic pride and members' trades with a parade through Portland on Oct. 8, 1841 at which they displayed 17 painted linen banners with graphic and textual representations of the artisans' skills.

Exhibit

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

Prohibition in Maine in the 1920s

Federal Prohibition took hold of America in 1920 with the passing of the Volstead Act that banned the sale and consumption of all alcohol in the US. However, Maine had the Temperance movement long before anyone was prohibited from taking part in one of America's most popular past times. Starting in 1851, the struggles between the "drys" and the "wets" of Maine lasted for 82 years, a period of time that was everything but dry and rife with nothing but illegal activity.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Maine Conservation Corps

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Site Page

Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 1 of 2

"… the charge for complete separation and organized a meeting to discuss the organization of a future convention regarding independence."

Site Page

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Final Vote

"… Finally, after three decades of planning, organizing, lobbying and failure, Massachusetts Governor John Brooks signed the bill on June 19, and on…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Lift the Boats for Everybody
by Andrea Cianchette Maker

The story of her immigrant great grandfather and her nonprofit organization Focus Maine.

Story

Black Lives Matter Protest Portland, Maine
by Joanne Arnold

Documenting the signage at Portland Police Station following the BLM Protests of June 2020

Story

Tammy Ackerman: Falling in love with Biddeford
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

Someone "from away" who fell in love with Biddeford and contributed to its transformation

Lesson Plans

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Lesson Plan

Bicentennial Lesson Plan

Building Community/Community Buildings

Grade Level: 6-8 Content Area: Social Studies
Where do people gather? What defines a community? What buildings allow people to congregate to celebrate, learn, debate, vote, and take part in all manner of community activities? Students will evaluate images and primary documents from throughout Maine’s history, and look at some of Maine’s earliest gathering spaces and organizations, and how many communities established themselves around certain types of buildings. Students will make connections between the community buildings of the past and the ways we express identity and create communities today.