Members of the 1921 Scarborough High School Track team included, front row from left, Ross Sherwood, Captain Emmons, Thomas Seavey and Clarence Peterson; middle, Aurthur Pillsbury, Clayton Sargent, Fred Skillings and principal and coach Elwood G. Bessy; back, Clark Libby and Edgar Milliken. Bessy was a coach, teacher and principal in Scarborough for 33 years […]
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Maine Bicentennial: Harpswell
Eleanor Webber Merriman with her daughter, granddaughter, and great-grandchild. Eleanor Merriman, married to Charles Merriman of West Harpswell, was born in 1824, the daughter of Phineas Webber and Lydia Beals. In commemoration of Maine’s bicentennial this year, The Forecaster is featuring historical highlights and artifacts from our communities’ past 200 years. This feature can […]
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Maine Bicentennial: Portland
In commemoration of Maine’s bicentennial this year, The Forecaster is featuring historical highlights from our communities’ past 200 years, in print and online every other week.
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Maine Bicentennial: Cumberland
Olive York (1790-1827) married Isaac Sturdivant (1784-1858) in 1810. These painted silhouettes, framed together in a fancy reverse-painted glass frame, may have served as the Cumberland couple’s wedding portrait. In commemoration of Maine’s bicentennial this year, The Forecaster is featuring historical highlights from our communities’ past 200 years. This feature can be found in print […]
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Maine Bicentennial: Windham
In commemoration of Maine’s bicentennial this year, the Lakes Region Weekly is featuring historical highlights from our communities’ past 200 years. This feature can be found in print and online every other week.
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Maine Bicentennial: Buxton
In commemoration of Maine’s bicentennial this year, the American Journal is featuring historical highlights from our communities’ past 200 years. This feature can be found in print and online every other week.
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Maine Bicentennial: South Portland
May pole dancers at Willard School in South Portland in 1925 are Lenora Bangert, Romona Rines, Beverly White, Frances Moore, Lucille David, Betty Preble, Hazel Libby, Marcia Haskell, Jane Winslow, Berta Singer, Helen Smith, Louise Tarling, Dorothea Strout, Doris Queen, Natalie Falconi, and Helene Apt.
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Maine Bicentennial: Portland
In commemoration of Maine’s bicentennial this year, The Forecaster is featuring historical highlights from our communities’ past 200 years, in print and online every other week.
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Maine Bicentennial: Topsham
Two workers pose at the Pejepscot Paper Company mill on the Androscoggin River in Topsham in a photograph taken about 1900. This is the debarking room. Pulp sticks were tumbled in the background until the bark was scraped off and the cleaned wood was sent to the pulp room, where it was ground up and […]
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Maine Bicentennial: North Yarmouth
A rare 18th-century cotton survivor, this modest small child’s dress belonged to Olive Gray, born May 25, 1779, in North Yarmouth. With a square neck, pin-tucked bodice and short frilled edge sleeves, this dress is made of a coarse cotton. The fabric was block printed with a red (madder) and blue (indigo) floral pattern.