Category: Arts & Entertainment, Cinema & Theater, Theaters
Item 12858
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1920 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 12894
State Theater, Portland, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Site Page
"Resources BOOKS Bonsey, Osmond C. Surry, Maine: An informal History, Surry Historical Society, 2003. Jellison, Connee."
Site Page
Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement
"Early Settlement Copy of Surry and Ellsworth map, ca. 1880Maine Historical Society Border Dispute Originally, Surry extended to the Union…"
Story
Movie Theaters in Portland Maine in the 1940s
by Ralph Bolduc
Ralph Bolduc shared his memories growing up in the movie theaters of Portland Maine in the 1940s.
Story
Memories of working at the Criterion Theatre
by Vernon L. Cox
Working as a teenager with projectionest Roy Blake at the Criterion Theater
Lesson Plan
Building Community/Community Buildings
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: Social Studies
Where do people gather? What defines a community? What buildings allow people to congregate to celebrate, learn, debate, vote, and take part in all manner of community activities? Students will evaluate images and primary documents from throughout Maine’s history, and look at some of Maine’s earliest gathering spaces and organizations, and how many communities established themselves around certain types of buildings. Students will make connections between the community buildings of the past and the ways we express identity and create communities today.
