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Historical Items

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Item 33742

Community Theatre Program, Guilford, July 3,1939

Contributed by: Guilford Historical Society Date: 1939-07-03 Location: Guilford Media: Ink on paper

Item 22852

Leavitt Theatre, Sanford, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1915 Location: Sanford Media: Print from glass negative

Item 29283

Guilford Community Theatre, 1939

Contributed by: Guilford Historical Society Date: 1939 Location: Guilford Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Memorializing Civil War Veterans: Portland & Westbrook

Three cemeteries -- all of which were in Westbrook during the Civil War -- contain headstones of Civil War soldiers. The inscriptions and embellishments on the stones offer insight into sentiments of the eras when the soldiers died.

Exhibit

Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… AdvertisementNortheast Harbor Library The theatre featured silent-film movies with live accompaniment on a $25,000 Robert Morgan 4-manual organ…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"In summers the Pastime also hosted plays, offering vaudeville between acts. The Park Theatre opened in Southwest in 1919, and soon, even Somesville…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"This opened on August 8, 1938, and provided another opportunity for people to attend plays, watch movies, and participate in other activities."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Memories of working at the Criterion Theatre
by Vernon L. Cox

Working as a teenager with projectionest Roy Blake at the Criterion Theater