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John Martin: Expert Observer - Canoe race, Kenduskeag Stream, Bangor, 1865

"… Description In the evening after the July 4, 1865 parade and observances in Bangor, ten Penobscot Indians in five birchbark canoes engaged in a…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Holiday Events

"There would be a parade, speeches and music. After a brief ceremony at the town memorial park, people walk down to the fisherman’s co-op wharf and…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Alonzo E. Raynes, Brewer, ca. 1838

"From his infancy to this date he was always watching my labours when he began to want to be in the fields and with me where ever I went." The image…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - First balloon ascension, Bangor, 1857

"… on the circus grounds Summer Street in Bangor to watch the ascension of a yellow silk balloon named "Young America." It was the first balloon…"

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Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"Water Street Parade float, Guilford, 1966Guilford Historical Society Saturday there was to be a “Mammoth Parade” of over 100 units assembling at…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Masonic Hall

"… this is, I usually watch the Lincoln Homecoming Parade from the front of the Masonic Hall in the summers."

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Music in Maine - Community and School Marching Bands

"… Elizabeth, South Portland, Berwick Academy, and Sanford parade down Park Avenue in Portland as part of a band festival.Maine Historical Society"

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Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"Of course, I didn’t see the parade because I was riding on the Peacock float. The women decorated the floats and ours was beautiful."

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"to represent Maine in the Cherry Blossom Parade. Lubec’s era of economic prosperity ended in the 1970s, signaled by the closing of American Can and…"

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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