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Keywords: Institute of Music and Art

Historical Items

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Item 23033

Reno sheet music, Mapleton, 1910

Contributed by: Alice Shepard through Haystack Historical Society Date: 1910 Location: Mapleton; New York Media: Ink on paper

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Item 18434

Pirates of Penzance, Ricker Classical Institute, Houlton, 1926

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1926 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Item 75129

Marianne Kneisel note to Elise F. White, Blue Hill, 1926

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1926 Location: Blue Hill Media: Ink on paper

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Online Exhibits

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Drawing Together: Art of the Longfellows

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is best know as a poet, but he also was accomplished in drawing and music. He shared his love of drawing with most of his siblings. They all shared the frequent activity of drawing and painting with their children. The extended family included many professional as well as amateur artists, and several architects.

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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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The Kotzschmar Memorial Organ

A fire and two men whose lives were entwined for more than 50 years resulted in what is now considered to be "the Jewel of Portland" -- the Austin organ that was given to the city of Portland in 1912.

Site Pages

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… and instrumental music schools, dance lessons, art exhibits, live concerts, special art classes, and other public functions, as written in many…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"These included the Music Hall, Uptown Theater, Columbia Hall, and our focus, the Bath Opera House, and its precursor, the Alameda."

My Maine Stories

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Mike Remillard shares his in-depth knowledge of our community
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

You will learn a lot from Mike's fascination with many topics from church organs to submarines.

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History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars

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Born in Bangor 1936
by Priscilla M. Naile

Spending time at the Bangor Children's Home