Keywords: Defense
Item 68978
Maine Civil Defense rescue demonstration, Hallowell, 1955
Contributed by: National Archives at Boston Date: circa 1955 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print
Item 68982
New Brunswick offical, Maine Civil Defense director, 1955
Contributed by: National Archives at Boston Date: 1955-12-14 Media: Photographic print
Item 110158
Rebuilding Armory State Military Defense Commision, Portland, 1946-1947
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1946–1947 Location: Portland Client: United States Government Architect: John Howard Stevens John Calvin Stevens II 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
Father Rasles, the Indians and the English
Father Sebastien Rasle, a French Jesuit, ran a mission for Indians at Norridgewock and, many English settlers believed, encouraged Indian resistance to English settlement. He was killed in a raid on the mission in 1724 that resulted in the remaining Indians fleeing for Canada.
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Online Items
… set-up in coastal states as part of our civil defense program. This observation post was erected on the roof of Forster Mfg.
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Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School
Army. Photo courtesy of the Department of Defense. X Cohen was sworn in as the twentieth Secretary of Defense on January 24, 1997.
Story
I have thought about Vietnam almost every day for 48 years
by Ted Heselton
Working as a heavy equipment operator in Vietnam
Story
Where are the French?
by Rhea Côté Robbins
Franco-Americans in Maine
