Keywords: vaudeville
Item 10169
Camp Runoia girls in Vaudeville place 1913
Contributed by: Camp Runoia Date: 1913 Location: Belgrade Media: Photographic print
Item 10168
Girls at Camp Runoia, Belgrade Lakes, 1913
Contributed by: Camp Runoia Date: 1913 Location: Belgrade Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Lewiston, Maine's second largest city, was long looked upon by many as a mill town with grimy smoke stacks, crowded tenements, low-paying jobs, sleazy clubs and little by way of refinement, except for Bates College. Yet, a noted Québec historian, Robert Rumilly, described it as "the French Athens of New England."
Exhibit
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.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance
"… showmanship and a keen understanding of the Vaudeville style. He was said to be a story teller of great talent and an unrepentant trickster."
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life
"… summers the Pastime also hosted plays, offering vaudeville between acts. The Park Theatre opened in Southwest in 1919, and soon, even Somesville…"
Story
Princess Watahwaso
by Jason Pardilla (Penobscot)
A story about Lucy Nicolar Poolaw (1882-1869)
