Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… great prestige among Mount Desert’s summer elite as did winning a ribbon in the annual horse show, long held at Robin Hood Park (where Jackson…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"For the elite set, there were reserved chairs in the front rows covered by an awning, and the remaining seating consisted of settees, for the common…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"Several of these members were elite class citizens including women. Florence Brooks Whitehouse was a very important member of the suffrage movement…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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