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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"Early Performance The Indian Village, Bar Harbor, ca. 1909Jesup Memorial Library Frank “Big Thunder” Loring, ca."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - A Short History Of Performing Arts On Mount Desert Island

"… exhibit we highlight some major focal points in Performing Arts History on the Island with examples from Early Performances on MDI during the late…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Sources For A Short History Of Performing Arts On MDI

"Sources For A Short History Of Performing Arts On MDI Kreisler, Fritz, perf. "Beautiful Ohio." Rec. ca. 1930. Open Source Audio Collection, n.d."

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Music in Maine - PLAY

"… is an important communal experience for the performer and the audience. Use the navigation tools on the left to explore the exhibition…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Ada Martin gymnastic costume, Bangor, 1864

"Martin wrote that in other years, the performance had been mostly singing, but in 1864, 26 of his 400 students performed the gymnastics they had…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Theater

"It is known that they were very popular and the community came to watch their children perform."

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Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"The SOC performed throughout Maine in 1985. Nowick brought the group to perform in Kyoto, Japan where he had lived for 15 years studying Zen and…"

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Music in Maine - Music and Television

"Dave Astor’s weekly episodes featured students from local high schools who performed hit songs from the radio, often lip synching and sometimes…"

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Historic Hallowell - Dr. Benjamin Page

"Benjamin Page (1770 - 1844) practiced medicine, performed minor surgery and sold patent medicine. His proficiency in the field of obstetrics earned…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lillian Nordica, Farmington, ca. 1911

"… trustees on the occasion of her last public performance in Farmington on August 17, 1911. The concert was held at Merrill Auditorium at the…"

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

"Kreisler performed in a series of performances in Bar Harbor with the famed pianist Ernest Schelling."

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Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"For the militakwat performance, my wife Donna Decontie-Brown and I created this original coat. It is a representation of Wabanaki woodland lichen in…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farewell appearance of Lillian Nordica, London, ca. 1913

"1914. Her performance with the London Symphony Orchestra is an indication of the high regard in which she was held."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Northeast Airlines DC-3, Presque Isle, ca. 1945

"… C-47s) and Northeast Airlines air crews performed survey and rescue flights from Presque Isle from 1941-1945."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 8, pages 135-150

"Blake Cornelius Driscoll Philadelphia Convention George W. Ladd President Johnson Annie Martin performance Solon Wilder Men smoking"

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Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music

"He hired regular show performers, and hosted special guests and teenagers from the Portland region. Ken MacKenzie’s parents were from Cape Breton…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders At Play

"… at his home that he had converted into a small performance area. Then in 1988, Doug, with a group of island volunteers began hosting the Sweet…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Junior Martin in cadet uniform, Bangor, ca. 1871

"… his social life and also when he commenced to perform business which occured in July last in the national Insurance office in which he stayed his…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 3 of 4

"… of her household and supervised its labors, and performed vital work as a midwife, attending 816 births within 27 years."

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Music in Maine - Bluegrass Music

"Al Hawkes and Alton Myers started performing as a teenagers in the 1940s. They met while browsing 78 RPM records at a store."

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3

"Those who didn't work the fields performed hard, back-breaking labor to earn what the city provided."

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Franco-American Heritage Center at St. Mary's

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Wabanaki Today

"(Photo by Anna Travers) X Chris Sockalexis performs with Rez Dog Singers at the Abbe Museum, 2010."

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Historic Hallowell - Initiative and Self-Improvement

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