Keywords: drills
Item 10167
Basketball drills at Camp Runoia, Belgrade Lakes. 1910
Contributed by: Camp Runoia Date: 1910 Location: North Belgrade; Belgrade Lakes Media: Photographic print
Item 102428
Fort Levett military training drills, Cushing Island, ca. 1917
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1917 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Civil Defense: Fear and Safety
In the 1950s and the 1960s, Maine's Civil Defense effort focused on preparedness for hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters and a more global concern, nuclear war. Civil Defense materials urged awareness, along with measures like storing food and other staple items and preparing underground or other shelters.
Exhibit
In 1893, F.C. Whitehouse of Topsham, who owned paper mills in Topsham and Lisbon Falls, began construction of a third mill on the eastern banks of the Androscoggin River five miles north of Topsham. First, he had to build a dam to harness the river's power.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Junior Martin in cadet uniform, Bangor, ca. 1871
"… formed a cadet company and began in December 1871 drilling with the Jameson Guards, a state militia group."
Site Page
"Even when cotton manufacturing became scarce, they worked on army tents, wagon covers, heavy drills, and jeans for military use."
Story
A Story in a Stick
by Jim Moulton
A story about dowsing for a well in Bowdoin
Story
Learning to fly and instructing cadets at West Point during WWII
by Vera Cleaves
West Point during World War II
