Keywords: boomer
Item 102512
Stephen H. Boomer in World War I army uniform, ca. 1917
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1917 Location: Anniston Media: Photographic print
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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.
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Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
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Music in Maine - Rock and Roll, Punk, and Elvis
"The huge baby boomer demographic served up social, political and cultural change in unprecedented scales."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education
"… it's schools bursting at the seams when the "baby-boomers" reached school age. It was soon apparent that a bigger high school was needed, and the…"
Story
The $ame Band
by Mike Laskey
Maine's punk rock band, 1977
Story
ROCK AND ROLL CONCERTS OF SOUTHERN MAINE
by Ford Reiche
A story about Rock and Roll in Maine, 1955-1977
