Keywords: Spring Island
Item 23808
Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: circa 1890 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print
Item 65150
Mike Duran, Cousins Island, ca. 1924
Contributed by: Yarmouth Historical Society Date: circa 1924 Location: Yarmouth Media: Photographic print
Item 85309
Sherrat property, Spring Avenue, Great Diamond Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Frances J. Sherrat Use: Summer Dwelling
Item 85326
Drummond property, Spring Avenue, Great Diamond Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Sallie T. Drummond Use: Summer Dwelling
Item 111670
Various mantel drawings for multiple clients, 1894-1907
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1894–1907 Location: Augusta Client: John F. Hill Architect: John Calvin Stevens
Exhibit
Poland Spring: Summering in Fashion
During the Gilded Age at the end of the nineteenth century, Americans sought to leave increasing urban, industrialized lives for the health and relaxation of the country. The Poland Spring resort, which offered a beautiful setting, healing waters, and many amenities, was one popular destination.
Exhibit
For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce
"… as funds allowed, usually about eight weeks in spring and eight in winter -- four months in all. Kids began at age six or seven, and it was common…"
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters
"… canoes, in which he will take parties to several Islands in the bay and around Mount Desert Island. Carrying sporting parties to places where…"
Story
Wabanaki-Greenland connections
by Jennifer Sapiel Neptune
Exploring cultural resiliency in this time of rapidly changing climate.
Story
Florence Ahlquist Link's WWII service in the WAVES
by Earlene Ahlquist Chadbourne
Florence Ahlquist, age 20, was trained to repair the new aeronautical cameras by the US Navy in WWII
