Keywords: Porter Memorial Hall
Item 25394
Porter Memorial Hall, Ocean Park, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: circa 1905 Location: Ocean Park Media: Photographic print
Item 112089
Pejepscot Company Records, Volume 6, 1730-1821
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1730–1821 Location: Boothbay Harbor; Bowdoinham; Brunswick; Harpswell Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.
Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.
Exhibit
Art of the People: Folk Art in Maine
For many different reasons people saved and carefully preserved the objects in this exhibit. Eventually, along with the memories they hold, the objects were passed to the Maine Historical Society. Object and memory, serve as a powerful way to explore history and to connect to the lives of people in the past.
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4
"… dedication tells of a trip to New Vineyard across Porter Lake. This was in the spring, and the ice had begun to melt. Dr."
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Grand Army of the Republic
"… of veterans sat around a table or out in the hall and sang old war songs, talked about war experiences, and swapped accounts of their deeds."
