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Historical Items

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Item 34336

Grey Lady Uniform, Bangor, ca. 1942

Contributed by: Bangor Historical Society Date: circa 1942 Location: Bangor Media: Cotton

Item 6778

Clarence Darrow, William Pattangal, and Mr. Grey, Portland, 1927

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1927 Media: Glass Negative

Item 81717

Brochure for the Grey Rock Inn, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Location: Mount Desert Media: Ink on paper, photographs

Online Exhibits

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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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Belfast During the Civil War: The Home Front

Belfast residents responded to the Civil War by enlisting in large numbers, providing relief from the home front to soldiers, defending Maine's shoreline, and closely following the news from soldiers and from various battles.

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Quenching the Thirst

"Worse a half-death in grey light." Read "The Tavern" from page 93  X Conduskeag Canoe Club Program 1903 Collections of Maine Historical…"

Site Pages

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Lodging and Hotels: A Savage Family Business

"Grey Rock Inn Owned by family member Emily Phillips Kenney Reynolds from 1927-1979. Rock End Hotel Owned by family members Herman LaFritz Savage…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Fashion of the '40s

"Grey Lady Uniform, Bangor, ca. 1942 Gray, red cross ladies uniformBangor Historical Society The use of rubber was also banned during war time, so as…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Resources

"2 ed. Lakeville: Grey House Publishing, 1999. Print. Whitman, Sylvia. V Is for Victory: The American Home Front During World War II (People's…"

My Maine Stories

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Story of the "little nun"
by Felicia Garant

My grandmother made a nun's outfit for me

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USCG Boot Camp Experience, Vietnam War era
by Peter S. Morgan, Jr.

"Letters to the Wall" Memorial Day

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Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.