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Keywords: Houlton Community Band

Historical Items

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Item 13212

Houlton Community Band, 1924

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1924-08-28 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Item 11114

Houlton Fair Cavalcade, 1914

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1914-08-27 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Item 105170

Houlton community and in Market Square, ca. 1910

Courtesy of Henry Gartley, an individual partner Date: circa 1908 Location: Houlton Media: Real Photo Postcard

Online Exhibits

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Strike Up the Band

Before the era of recorded music and radio, nearly every community had a band that played at parades and other civic events. Fire departments had bands, military units had bands, theaters had bands. Band music was everywhere.

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Holding up the Sky: Wabanaki people, culture, history, and art

Learn about Native diplomacy and obligation by exploring 13,000 years of Wabanaki residence in Maine through 17th century treaties, historic items, and contemporary artworks—from ash baskets to high fashion. Wabanaki voices contextualize present-day relevance and repercussions of 400 years of shared histories between Wabanakis and settlers to their region.

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Making Paper, Making Maine

Paper has shaped Maine's economy, molded individual and community identities, and impacted the environment throughout Maine. When Hugh Chisholm opened the Otis Falls Pulp Company in Jay in 1888, the mill was one of the most modern paper-making facilities in the country, and was connected to national and global markets. For the next century, Maine was an international leader in the manufacture of pulp and paper.

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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