Keywords: Golden Rule Society
Item 6647
The home of Golden Rule Shoes, Freeport, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Freeport Media: Chromolithograph
Item 22246
Seal Harbor Neighborhood House, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Great Harbor Maritime Museum Date: circa 1935 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
Exhibit
Toy Len Goon: Mother of the Year
Toy Len Goon of Portland, an immigrant from China, was a widow with six children when she was selected in 1952 as America's Mother of the Year.
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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