Keywords: Expert Columbia
Item 8143
Edgar C. Dunton, Skowhegan, 1888
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: 1888 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print
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Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.
Exhibit
Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine
BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Republican Wigwam, Bangor, 1872
"… that was located at the corner of Hammond and Columbia streets in Bangor. The building was constructed for campaign purposes to hold 1,200 people…"
