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Keywords: Quotations

Historical Items

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Item 74191

'A Calendar of Stray Thoughts,' ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Media: Ink on paper

Item 6392

Second Parish quilt, Portland, 1886

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1885 Location: Portland Media: Cotton

Item 99454

Lt. George B. Stevens letter to wife, Long Island, 1862

Contributed by: Westbrook Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Long Island Sound; Westbrook Media: Ink on paper

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Online Exhibits

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Bookplates Honor Annie Louise Cary

A summer resident of Wayne collected more than 3,000 bookplates to honor Maine native and noted opera singer Annie Louise Cary and to support the Cary Memorial Library.

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Memorializing Civil War Veterans: Portland & Westbrook

Three cemeteries -- all of which were in Westbrook during the Civil War -- contain headstones of Civil War soldiers. The inscriptions and embellishments on the stones offer insight into sentiments of the eras when the soldiers died.

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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.

Site Pages

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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahoc County Courthouse

"… That the Nation Might Live.” There is also a quotation at the bottom: “The world will little note what we say, but it can never forget what they…"

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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