Keywords: Early pilots
Item 104787
Ruth Nichols, Clarence Chamberlain, and unidentified pilot, ca. 1935
Do you know where this was taken and who the middle person is?
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1935 Media: Glass Negative
Item 21550
'The Pathfinder,' Old Orchard Beach, 1929
Contributed by: Old Orchard Beach Historical Society Date: 1929-07-08 Location: Old Orchard Beach; Old Orchard Beach 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
Scientist, author and explorer Donald B. MacMillan established Wiscasset as his homeport for many of the voyages he made to the Arctic region starting in the early 1920s.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Original Mount Desert Island Pilot Project (2006)
"Original Mount Desert Island Pilot Project (2006) This project began as part of the pilot phase of what would become the Maine Community Heritage…"
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Welcome and Introduction
"You can visit the pilot project here. In 2012 and 2013, this project was revived by new participants, who created historical interpretations of…"
Story
Florence Ahlquist Link's WWII service in the WAVES
by Earlene Ahlquist Chadbourne
Florence Ahlquist, age 20, was trained to repair the new aeronautical cameras by the US Navy in WWII
Story
Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR
