Keywords: Crowd
Item 103980
Crowd in Monument Square, Portland, 1923
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1924-07-04 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
Item 1047
Crowd at Norridgewock, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Norridgewock Media: Photographic print
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
From the last decades of the nineteenth century through about the 1920s, vacationers were attracted to large resort hotels that promised a break from the noise, crowds, and pressures of an ever-urbanizing country.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - 1st Maine Heavy Artillery, Bangor, 1865
"… to Bangor in September 1865, greeted by a large crowd. John Martin, a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, wrote about their return and drew this…"
Site Page
"… was thrown open, which was packed by a joyful crowd. Speeches, singing and cheers were the order of the evening, and were appropriate and…"
Story
Eating lower on the food chain
by Avery Yale Kamila
Animal agriculture's ties to climate change
Story
The best lobster roll in Maine!
by Debbie Gagnon
The history of Red's Eats and the recipe for our famous Lobster Rolls
