Category: Arts & Entertainment, Cinema & Theater, Programs & advertisements
Item 13492
Performance poster, Fryeburg, 1940
Contributed by: Fryeburg Historical Society Date: 1940-07-16 Location: Fryeburg Media: Ink on paper
Item 19018
Pageant of Machias Valley program, 1913
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1913 Location: Machias Media: Ink on paper
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."