Keywords: Promontory
Item 66490
Narragansett by the Sea and Shore Drive, Kennebunk Beach, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1938 Location: Kennebunk Beach Media: Linen texture postcard
Item 66615
Great Head, Mt. Desert Island, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1935 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Linen texture postcard
Exhibit
The Advent of Green Acre, A Baha'i Center of Learning
The Green Acre Baha'i School began as Green Acre Conferences, established by Sarah Jane Farmer in Eliot. She later became part of the Baha'i Faith and hosted speakers and programs that promoted peace. In 1912, the leader of the Baha'i Faith, 'Abdu'l-Baha, visited Green Acre, where hundreds saw him speak.
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.
