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October Programs and Events
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Vote for Images
from Exposed: Rare Photographs of Life
in Maine!
Go to our Facebook page, and "like" your favorite photos in the album: Vote for Exposed. The top picks will be displayed in a special extension show called People's Choice: Best of Exposed, with a First Friday Art Walk reception on Nov. 2. Find your pics!  Were you photographed at one of our First Friday events? Visit our Flickr page to find and share images. |
Support Your History
For more information please contact the Development Office at (207) 774-1822,
ext. 206 or email info@mainehistory.org |
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Welcome!
With the arrival of autumn, MHS is bustling with school programs, exciting events, visits from cruise ships, exhibits, and much more. October is Family History Month and MHS is ready to help with your genealogy projects (scroll down for a special coupon on all genealogy books and charts from the Museum Store). Enjoy!
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Stories from Maine Memory Network
In the wake of the Three Mile Island accident, how did Mainers feel about nuclear power? Maine made history on September 23, 1980, by voting on a citizen-initiated referendum to prohibit "the generation of electric power by nuclear fission thermal power plants in the State of Maine." Visit the exhibit.
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MHS, in partnership with the Maine State Library, has been awarded a prestigious National Leadership Grant by the Institute of Museum & Library Services to expand the training and support available to local historical societies, libraries, and schools who participate in the Maine Memory Network. Learn More...
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 This month we welcome John Bowditch, former curator of technology at the Henry Ford Museum, and Robert Freidel, professor of history at the University of Maryland and contributor to exhibits at the Smithsonian Institution. These prominent scholars will review objects and archives in the Central Maine Power Collection and provide national context for this important Maine story. More...
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Featured Program
Thursday 10/7, 7:00PM
Making It In Maine: Jewish Stories From the Pine Tree State
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Join us and David Freidenreich, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Colby College, for stories depicting Jewish experiences in Maine from the mid-nineteenth century until today. Come prepared to contribute your own memories to this mosaic! This event is a partnership with Temple Beth El, Congregation Shaarey Tphiloh, Congregation Bet Ha'am, and the Maine Jewish Museum. More...
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Spotlight On:
MHS Docent, Emily Battle It's cruise ship season, which often means hundreds of visitors per day in the Longfellow House and long hours for our docents. Emily Battle, in her third season at MHS, loves meeting the people who come on her tours. She was never a "history buff," but the Portland History Docent training program sparked her interest. Emily says the house is "a wonderful place...you really get a feel for what life was like." It makes her appreciate one aspect of modern life: indoor plumbing! Thanks, Emily, for all that you do!
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Bill's MythbustersFact Checking with William David Barry, Maine Historian Extraordinaire  CLAIM: The Queen Marie Antoinette House (Capt. Stephen Clough House) on Jeremy Squam Island (now Westport, Maine) was prepared as a place of asylum for the ill-fated French Queen.
REALITY: Queen Marie never made it to our shores and was guillotined by her former subjects on October 15, 1795. According to Wiscasset author Fanny S. Chase, Capt. Stephen Clough was an eyewitness to the execution. There were American sympathizers, some with ties to Maine, who might have wished to spirit the monarch away. Clough could have been one, but such an opportunity did not present itself. Dresses and furniture belonging to French aristocrats could be purchased on the cheap and some made their way to Maine. Calling the Clough House the Marie Antoinette House seems a romantic stretch of monumental proportions.
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Weekly Deal
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Save 20%
October is Family History Month!
Get started with your family's genealogy.
Bring this coupon to the MHS Museum Store in Portland, or use the coupon code "FAMILY" at our online store and receive 20% off all genealogy charts and books!
| Hurry In...Offer Expires October 14, 2010
Discount not valid without coupon or coupon code. |
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