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Historical Items

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Item 29408

Riverton Park Theater, Portland, ca. 1898

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1898 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 10169

Camp Runoia girls in Vaudeville place 1913

Contributed by: Camp Runoia Date: 1913 Location: Belgrade Media: Photographic print

Item 18845

Trenton Drive-in, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Trenton Cemetery & Keeping Society Date: circa 1950 Location: Trenton Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Strike Up the Band

Before the era of recorded music and radio, nearly every community had a band that played at parades and other civic events. Fire departments had bands, military units had bands, theaters had bands. Band music was everywhere.

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We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.

Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.

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Remembering Mellie Dunham: Snowshoe Maker and Fiddler

Alanson Mellen "Mellie" Dunham and his wife Emma "Gram" Dunham were well-known musicians throughout Maine and the nation in the early decades of the 20th century. Mellie Dunham also received fame as a snowshoe maker.

Site Pages

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"… hall provided entertainment, as did traveling theater companies, minstrel shows and the movie theater, showing silent films accompanied by a local…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"… 1900 summer church services were held in an outdoor grove on the corner of Roxbury Road and Poplar Hill, near the Walton School."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Of The Arts Era

"… interior was said to bring the beauty of the outdoors inside but unfortunately, no interior photographs of the building have survived."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Lionel "Toots" Bouthot: A life filled with music
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

From the age of 5, a lifetime of contributing to the musical fabric of Biddeford.