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Keywords: Religious education

Historical Items

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Item 13811

East Maine Conference Seminary, Bucksport, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Bucksport Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Bucksport Media: Postcard

Item 14157

Esther Leach, 1924

Contributed by: Bucksport Historical Society Date: 1924 Location: Bucksport Media: Photographic print

Item 14161

Louise Knapp, Bucksport, ca. 1924

Contributed by: Bucksport Historical Society Date: 1924 Location: Bucksport Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151767

Portland Hebrew School, 1955

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1955–1958 Location: Portland Client: Portland Hebrew School Synagogue Association Architect: Abraham Siegal

Item 150473

Plans of Convent School fo Father Conlon, Calais, 1884-1885

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1884–1885 Location: Calais Client: Conlon, Architect: George M. Coombs

Item 150828

School for St. Joseph Parish, Lewiston, 1934

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1934 Location: Lewiston Client: Catholic Church Architect: Edw. T. Graham

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

John Bapst High School

John Bapst High School was dedicated in September 1928 to meet the expanding needs of Roman Catholic education in the Bangor area. The co-educational school operated until 1980, when the diocese closed it due to decreasing enrollment. Since then, it has been a private school known as John Bapst Memorial High School.

Exhibit

From French Canadians to Franco-Americans

French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.

Exhibit

400 years of New Mainers

Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… 1803 for the purpose of space sharing for various religious entities. Money for erecting the building was secured from the sale of the pews."

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Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… education, was a very important goal, mostly for religious instruction, but it stuck. The town of Blue Hill was and is a bustling coastal community."

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Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy

"Although she had no prior intention of founding a religious community, Catherine and two companions took vows of poverty, chastity, obedience, and an…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Nursing at Mercy Hospital during WWII
by Roberta Loring

Education and nursing at Mercy Hospital during World War II.

Story

The Mercy mission called to me deeply
by Melissa Skahan

Melissa Skahan recounted her admiration for the Sisters, as well as her years of work at Mercy

Story

Don Bisson - Living his convictions
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center Voices of Biddeford project

Returning after a career in New York City, Don has dedicated his life to addressing food insecurity.