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Historical Items

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Item 7956

Sarah Lewis Merry's penmanship exercise, 1817

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1817 Media: Ink, watercolor on paper, phototransparency

Item 54918

Good Will Students Exercising, Fairfield, 1928

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: 1928 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Item 52949

Keyes Cottage boys, Fairfield, 1959

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: 1959 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

A Craze for Cycling

Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.

Exhibit

Graduation Season

Graduations -- and schools -- in the 19th through the first decade of the 20th century often were small affairs and sometimes featured student presentations that demonstrated what they had learned. They were not necessarily held in May or June, what later became the standard "end of the school year."

Exhibit

The World's Largest Oxen

Named for the two largest things in Maine at the turn of the 20th century, Mt. Katahdin and Granger of Stetson, were known as the Largest Oxen in the World. Unable to do farm work because of their size, they visited fairs and agricultural events around the Northeast.

Site Pages

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Site Page

John Martin: Expert Observer - Circus swing, Boston, 1853

"… swing, he wrote, "The introduction of swing exercises on a rope as below commenced in this Circus which was as wonderful as any feats were…"

Site Page

Lincoln, Maine - Ballard Hill School, Lincoln, ca. 1930

"Wright. The morning exercises were performed by Mr. Wright. He then read a few passages from the Bible."

Site Page

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Theater

"… also be a bad thing because no one will want to exercise as much. Not many people like to drive to the theater in Bangor just to watch a movie…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

My service in Afghanistan with the Marines and my life today
by Nicholas Krier

My service in Afghanistan with the Marines

Story

Where are the French?
by Rhea Côté Robbins

Franco-Americans in Maine

Story

Learning to fly and instructing cadets at West Point during WWII
by Vera Cleaves

West Point during World War II

Lesson Plans

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Lesson Plan

Bicentennial Lesson Plan

Maine Statehood and the Missouri Compromise

Grade Level: 9-12 Content Area: Social Studies
Using primary sources, students will explore the arguments for and against Maine statehood and the Missouri Compromise, and the far-reaching implications of Maine statehood and the Missouri Compromise such as the preservation and spread of slavery in the United States. Students will gather evidence and arguments to debate the statement: The Missouri Compromise was deeply flawed and ultimately did more harm to the Union than good.

Lesson Plan

Bicentennial Lesson Plan

Maine Statehood

Grade Level: 9-12 Content Area: Social Studies
Maine's quest for statehood began in the years immediately following the American Revolution. Though the state of Massachusetts consented to the separation in 1819 and Maine would ultimately achieve statehood in 1820, Maine’s split from Massachusetts was not without controversy and was not universally supported by people living in Maine. Using primary sources, students will explore the arguments for and against Maine statehood. Students will gather evidence and arguments to debate the statement: It is in the best interests of the people of Maine for Maine to become its own state.