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Historic Hallowell - Blizzard Poems

"Blizzard Poems Blizzard 1952 dangerous outcomes galore overwhelming white Snow unexpected depth 28 inches of white unforgettable Surprise disaster…"

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Historic Hallowell - Cyclone Poems

"Cyclone Poems Cyclones In 1895 only happened once here in this city Storms The rains are bad but the wind is always the worst umbrellas fall…"

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Historic Hallowell - Train Wreck Poem

"Train Wreck Poem On the tenth of November, 1937 There was a young man named Kevin All at once with a groan Three train cars jumped alone Two cars…"

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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ice Storm Poem

"Hallowell Ice Storm Poem Hallowell Ice Storm Poem By Clio Barr Innocent, raw raindrops were the prelude, landing sneakily on branch and pavement."

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Historic Hallowell - The 1998 Ice Storm - Reflections in Poems

"Click the links on the sidebar to the right to get to the many poems written by the Hall-Dale Middle School students."

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Historic Hallowell - Poem of the 1896 Flood by William Lewis

"Poem of the 1896 Flood by William Lewis Hallowell Flood of 1896 It was March 3, 1896 and there was a flood Everyone was 10 feet under without any…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Julia Harris May poetry collection, 1903

"This collection, Looking for the Stars and Other Poems, is subtitled "A souvenir of Franklin County." It celebrates local persons and places…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Elizabeth Akers Allen, née Chase

"She started contributing poems to the Atlantic Monthly in 1858. In 1866, she published her second collection, Poems, under the name of "Elizabeth…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 4 of 4

"… In summary, Rumford poet, Thomas Fallon’s poem “Pennacook Falls”, tells the story of our great Androscoggin, without which there would be no…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"That poem remained by far her best known, even though she published many poems, often in the Atlantic Monthly."

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Historic Hallowell - Disasters - Natural and Man-made

"Students scanned and uploaded images, prepared poems, timelines, cartoons, maps, podcasts, and other creative supports."

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Historic Hallowell - Initiative and Self-Improvement

"… day, and wrote compositions, essays, reports and poems, performed dialogs, enacted scenes from plays and debated."

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Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 2 of 2

"Young, John. F. The Great Bangor Fire: April 30, 1911. [poem] Broadside. Special Collections, Fogler Library, Univ. of Maine, Orono. Print."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - "A Little Daisy," Katahdin Iron Works, 1890

"… & wanted me to draw her home in it & write a poem which I did. & In the course of time She made a beautiful hanging ornament of tisue paper of…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"and 11:00 p.m. A poem by John McInnis is a graphic description of this historic conflagration. A significant and financially catastrophic fire…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"May in 1894, is shown at right, with the poem, The Happy Hills of Strong, from that book. Next Page (Village Schools) Return to Online Exhibits"

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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Wadsworth Era: 1786-1807

"… Wadsworth Longfellow, later wrote a famous poem about his Pilgrim ancestors. Elizabeth ran the Portland household. In 1797, Charles was married."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"They sang songs, wrote poems, lit firecrackers, pranked one another, and entertained the locals. They played baseball and tug of war, and held…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… town, as Ethel West, a resident of South Rumford whose home was on the bank of the Mt. Zircon Stream, expressed in her poem “A Town in Maine”."

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Quenching the Thirst

"X Collected Poems of Edward Arlington Robinson The MacMillan Company, 1929 Courtesy of William and Debra Barry Collections of Maine Historical…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"… and win prizes by singing, reading, or reciting poems or other pieces. Schools from Beech Ridge, Oak Hill, and Dunstan participated in the event…"

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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… town's economic downturn best in two verses of a poem he wrote for the 1903 Centennial: Old Surry was blessed by nature/With her harbor, hills and…"

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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Longfellow Era: 1807-1901

"At age 13 he published his first poem in the Portland Gazette, signing it simply "HENRY." He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"Raymond C. Rodgers wrote a poem printed in The Trot and Pacer, Christmas 1922 which describes the rivalry between the three pacers."