Keywords: St. John's Day
Item 35288
Biddeford Knights Templar on St. John's Day, 1916
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1916 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Item 22636
St. John's Day, Brunswick, 1894
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1894 Location: Brunswick Media: Photographic print
Item 36456
146 Pine Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Harriet L Day Use: Dwelling - Single family
Item 111891
Williston Church alterations, Portland, 1904-1946
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1904–1946 Location: Portland Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Item 116467
House for Jessie Wright, Cape Elizabeth, 1913-1924
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1913–1924 Location: Cape Elizabeth Client: Jessie Wright Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
St-Jean-Baptiste Day -- June 24th -- in Lewiston-Auburn was a very public display of ethnic pride for nearly a century. Since about 1830, French Canadians had used St. John the Baptist's birthdate as a demonstration of French-Canadian nationalism.
Exhibit
Father John Bapst: Catholicism's Defender and Promoter
Father John Bapst, a Jesuit, knew little of America or Maine when he arrived in Old Town in 1853 from Switzerland. He built churches and defended Roman Catholics against Know-Nothing activists, who tarred and feathered the priest in Ellsworth in 1854.
Site Page
"He was released from St. Pelagie in 1830, an old man who now knew the prison as his home. After three days of freedom, Swan set out to turn himself…"
Site Page
Rum, Riot, and Reform - Politics and Enforcement
"Collections of Maine Historical Society B St 96 A native of Ireland, Civil War veteran Murphy was pulled from jail by Capt."
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
Story
An enjoyable conference, Portland 2021
by John C. Decker, Danville, Pennsylvania
Some snippets from a 4-day conference by transportation historians in Portland, September 7-11, 2021
