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Historical Items

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Item 14613

Measuring wheel, Fort Kent, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Fort Kent Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Fort Kent Media: Steel, wood

Item 105853

Bureau of Parks and Lands social distancing poster, Freeport, 2020

Courtesy of an individual partner Date: 2020-04-07 Location: Freeport Media: Digital image

Item 33554

Standpipe, Bangor, ca. 1944

Contributed by: Bangor Historical Society Date: circa 1944 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Building the International Appalachian Trail

Wildlife biologist Richard Anderson first proposed the International Appalachian Trail (IAT) in 1993. The IAT is a long-distance hiking trail along the modern-day Appalachian, Caledonian, and Atlas Mountain ranges, geological descendants of the ancient Central Pangean Mountains. Today, the IAT stretches from the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine, through portions of Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Europe, and into northern Africa.

Exhibit

Maine Through the Eyes of George W. French

George French, a native of Kezar Falls and graduate of Bates College, worked at several jobs before turning to photography as his career. He served for many years as photographer for the Maine Development Commission, taking pictures intended to promote both development and tourism.

Exhibit

Promoting Rockland Through a Stereopticon, 1875

Frank Crockett and photographer J.P. Armbrust took stereo views of Rockland's downtown, industry, and notable homes in the 1870s as a way to promote tourism to the town.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders At Play

"Today it can be kept at a distance; a ferry distance. The Islanders at Play Exhibit represents this "simplicity of free time" used by our ancestors…"

Site Page

Maine's Road to Statehood - Maine in the 17th Century

"A significant distance from Boston, Mainers relied on whatever help they could receive.[3] Likely due to geographic distance than any conscious or…"

Site Page

Historic Hallowell - Post Office and Fire Station

"… The Hallowell Fire Station is within walking distance of this fire on Academy St. during the aftermath of the ice storm."

My Maine Stories

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Story

What did I do during the Covid quarantine?
by Nasser Rohani from Baha'i Community

Individuals response to Covid and social distancing.

Story

Pandemic Blues
by Darlene Reardon

Covid 19 Portland poem

Story

Isolation!
by Leslie

Having only moved to Maine alone 8 months prior, had to freeze my life