Keywords: horse run
Item 39367
Tobogan Run in Winter, Bangor, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Bangor Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Bangor Media: Glass Negative
Item 50414
Horse car #87, Portland, ca. 1885
Contributed by: Seashore Trolley Museum Date: circa 1885 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 109644
Block for Mr. M.J. Googin, Lewiston, 1893-1915
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1893–1915 Location: Lewiston; Lewiston Client: M. J. Googin Architect: George M. Coombs; Coombs Brothers Architects
Exhibit
Fair Season: Crops, Livestock, and Entertainment
Agricultural fairs, intended to promote new techniques and better farming methods, have been held since the early 19th century. Before long, entertainments were added to the educational focus of the early fairs.
Exhibit
The novelty of organized auto racing came to Maine in 1911 with a hill-climbing event in Poland and speed racing at Old Orchard Beach. Drivers and cars came from all over New England for these events.
Site Page
Rum, Riot, and Reform - A Call to Temperance
"… than attending the wounded riders and their horse, the passengers simply smashed the keg of rum, which they saw as the root cause."
Site Page
Rum, Riot, and Reform - Drinking: Elegance and Debauchery
"… to turn out and help put its members in a horse pond. We have no objections." Alcoholometer set by Charles Gerletti of Glasgow, made…"
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
The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona
Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.