Keywords: Community
Item 11112
Houlton Community Park, ca. 1945
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1945 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Item 71713
Community Building, Rockland, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Location: Rockland Media: Linen texture postcard
Item 86552
20-22 Wilmot Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Leland H. Poore Use: Community Club
Item 86553
Assessor's Record, 22 WIlmot Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: William Byron Use: Garage
Item 109534
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1938 Client: unknown Architect: Harry S. Coombs
Item 109326
Proposed Community, Health, and Recreation Facility, Bangor, ca. 1970
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1970 Location: Bangor; Bangor Client: Inverstors Realty Inc. Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
Exhibit
KVVTI's Gilman Street Campus, 1978-1986
The Gilman Street building began its life in 1913 as Waterville High School, but served from 1978 to 1986 as the campus of Kennebec Valley Vocational Technical Institute. The building helped the school create a sense of community and an identity.
Exhibit
A Handwritten Community Newspaper
The eight issues of South Freeport's handwritten newspaper, distributed in 1859, provided "general interest and amusement" to the coastal community.
Site Page
Skowhegan Community History - Sister Communities
"… that allowed MHS to then develop the Maine Community Heritage Project, a program funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services to support…"
Site Page
"Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea Wabanaki beaded purse, ca. 1870Hudson Museum, Univ."
Story
Paul Gagne: Living a life fully engaged in his community
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
A man with a wide range of skills and talents shares them for the benefit of his community
Story
Redlining and the Jewish Communities in Maine
by David Freidenreich
Federal and state policies created unfair housing practices against immigrants, like redlining.
Lesson Plan
How Do Communities Represent Themselves
Grade Level: K-2
Content Area: Social Studies
Students learn about historical and current flags of Maine and work in small groups to create flags to represent their classroom/school communities.
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.
