Category: Recreation & Leisure, Sports, Swimming
Item 6599
Swimmers at Damariscotta Lake, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Location: Jefferson Media: Photoprint
Item 7766
Ready for a dip in the lake, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Belgrade Lakes Media: Photoprint
Exhibit
From French Canadians to Franco-Americans
French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.
Story
A Splash of Water
by Marilyn Weymouth Seguin
Reminisce of a lifetime on Little Sebago Lake
Story
Childhood Memories of Learning to Swim on Rangeley Lake
by Betty C.
Betty's two older sisters taught her how to swim on Rangeley Lake.
