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Current Exhibits
Museum
Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine
**Closes May 27**
Lecture Hall Gallery
Vintage Maine Images: A Website Comes to Life (through June 23, 2013)
Showcase Gallery
Local History/ Local Schools student artwork
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Spring Hours
Museum & Museum Store: Monday-Saturday, 10am-5pm; Sundays 12-5pm
Brown Library: Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm
Wadsworth-Longfellow House: Monday-Saturday: 10am-5pm, Sundays: 12pm-5pm. Call for tour times 207-774-1822.
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Spotlight On
Vintage Maine Images Volunteers
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This winter as we prepared to launch our redesigned website Vintage Maine Images, our Image Services & Design Coordinator Dani Fazio assembled a team of six volunteers who came in weekly to assist her with new branding and design, social media, marketing, exhibit organization and production, community outreach, and launch party planning. We would like to acknowledge the role each volunteer played in helping to make the launch party and new brand a success. Each person brought energy and enthusiasm to their work, contributed specialized skills, and did this while working or attending college.
Sofia Yalouris - exhibit organization, production, event host
Mike Hilleary - exhibit organization, event planning, marketing
Matt-Austin Coffey - event marketing and outreach, data support
Cecilia Ziko - graphic design and branding
Mary Holt - product research, social media, event DJ
Anastasia Azenaro-Moore - social media
Since February, these volunteers have put in 198 hours--a tremendous gift. THANK YOU!
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Maine in the Civil War: Family Legends
Theme We are interested to hear your family's stories about ancestors involved in the Civil War, from those who fought (or served in other capacities), to activities on the home-front. Selection & Publication MHS staff will judge the essays based on their relevance to Maine, clarity of writing, and the overall nature of the story. The winning essay will be published in our printed fall newsletter. The first and second runners-up, will be published on the MHS Blog. Submissions
Deadline: July 5, 2013. 300 - 500 words. Please include a title, your name as you would like it to appear in print, and your city and state. An accompanying image will be accepted.
Questions
Contact Laura Webb at 207- 774-1822 x201 or by email.
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Support the Annual Fund
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Thank you for recognizing the importance of our work and our place in the cultural landscape of Maine. Please contact Deborah Stone, Director of Development, at 207-772-1822 ext. 231 for further information. |
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MHS Wish List
MHS has a few much-needed items on our " Wish List." Can you help? Continue reading on our blog post for more information. |
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Historical Image:
Wadsworth-Longfellow House, Portland, ca. 1920
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MMN #11697
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The Wadsworth-Longfellow House is once again open for the season! Note the new hours posted in this issue. Whether you've never been on a tour, or taken several, we invite you to visit us this spring and summer. Be sure to spend some time in the Longfellow Garden behind the house, a hidden gem in downtown Portland.
There's something special about a historic house in a modern city. If the walls of the Wadsworth-Longfellow House could talk, imagine what they'd say about the changes they've seen. While this ca. 1920 image doesn't look so different from today in some ways -- the house is largely the same, the gate remains, passersby and cars still congregate along the street -- much has changed. The elms succumbed to disease and were replaced by flowering trees, the library has been renovated, and the MHS administration building is now located to the left of the house. And that's just on one street corner. We live in a city, a state, a world that would be entirely foreign to our ancestors if they were to return for a tour.
Fortunately, we have great images like this one to keep their world in mind as change continues.
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MHS News
 Maine Historical Society is pleased to announce the redesign and launch of our website Vintage Maine Images. Originally built in 2004, the site serves as a way to sell images from Maine Memory Network. It's been redesigned for improved ease of use, and has a modern new look. Vintage Maine Images (VMI) is a shopping web site offering reproductions of more than 21,000 historical Maine images. VMI provides products for a range of uses including home and office décor, gifts, publications, and more. We celebrated this milestone last Friday with a launch party and the opening of the exhibit Vintage Maine Images: A Website Comes to Life (through June 23, 2013, lecture hall).  Vintage Maine Images is social! Follow us on Facebook for updates, photos, history, giveaways, and events. Coming Soon: Vintage Maine Images at the Museum Store!
Vintage Maine Images Quick Facts
ˇ Reproductions available as photographic prints and digital files. Creative use licenses offered at commercial and non-profit rates ˇ Photographs, maps, postcards, paintings, broadsides, daguerreotypes, drawings, architectural plans, letters, and more ˇ 9,000+ images of homes and businesses from the 1924 City of Portland Tax Recordsˇ Images of 650+ towns across Maine and New England ˇ Images come from collections of Maine Historical Society and 100+ Contributing Partners (museums, historical societies, libraries). Contributing partners receive 50% of the sale of their items, to support local history preservation projects Final Round of Maine Memory Network
Grants Awarded
Seven new digitization and online exhibit projects were funded in April under MHS's 2010-2013 Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant. This is the final group of organizations to receive grants as part of the Community Mobilization Program, which has funded a total of 46 projects (spread across 67 organizations). Read on to find out who received the final grants. |
May Programs
Wednesday, May 15, 12:00pm
Intro to MHS: Maine Memory Network Demonstration Facilitator: Kathy Amoroso, Director of Digital Projects Click for details.
Thursday, May 16, 7:30am - 8:00pm
Genealogy Research Trip to Boston
Details below
Thursday, May 23, 7:00pm
Images of Johnny Appleseed: Saint or Buffoon? Speaker: Russell Powell
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Featured May Program
Genealogy Research Trip to Boston
 When: Thursday, May 16, 7:30am - 8:00pm What: Join MHS for a day of genealogical research at the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS).
Registration: Required by Monday, May 6. Fee*: $35 for MHS members; $45 for non-members. To register, please call 774-1822.
*Does not include admission to NEHGS Library (NEHGS Members: Free; non-NEHGS members: $15).
Details: Join MHS for a day of genealogical research at the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS). NEHGS, which was established in 1845, boasts a collection of more than 200,000 genealogical and historical volumes, over one million manuscripts, as well as census records, vital records, deeds, probates, military records, plus the latest resources in print, microtext, and CD-Rom. Individuals who would like to take the MHS bus to Boston for a day of sightseeing but who do not plan to do research are welcome.
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From the Collections
Summer Camps in Maine
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Pamphlet #5047
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Maine Historical Society has a large collection of pamphlets about camps in Maine, especially those that were founded in the early 20th century (many of which exist today). You can find these by searching our online catalog for "Camps - Maine."
Notes from the Archives Back in March, while I looked out the window onto the Longfellow Garden and saw only mud and snow, inside my office a collection of Maine summer camps pamphlets came across my desk, and my world was suddenly full of sunshine, warmth, and visions of young campers enjoying lakeside adventures. Now that we are on the cusp of summertime, those images are once again close to reality...
Click here to continue reading this blog post by Nancy Noble, MHS Archivist/Cataloger.
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Seen at MHS
Civil War Symposium on April 27
Vintage Maine Images Launch Party on May 3
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Museum Store
Calling All Garden Lovers
Gardening season is upon us! Draw your inspiration from Beatrix Farrand, Private Gardens, Public Landscapes by Judith Tankard. Beatrix Farrand was one of the foremost landscape designers of the early 1900s with clients in Newport, the Berkshires, and Maine.
$60 in store and online.
Visit us at 489 Congress Street in Portland, call us at 207-774-1822 ext. 208, or visit our online store.
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