Maine Historical Society
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PublishedFebruary 14, 2025
Pet exhibit shows history of Mainers’ best friends
From pampered companions to working animals, dogs to moose, the Maine Historical Society examines what pets have meant to the people of Maine.
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PublishedNovember 4, 2024
Longfellow’s Haunted House tours continue to spook Portland
The popular seasonal tours of the Wadsworth-Longfellow House are based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "Haunted Houses," and focus on those who lived and died in the Portland landmark.
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PublishedSeptember 22, 2024
Plant-based food columnist explores Maine’s buried vegetarian history
Avery Yale Kamila talks about her co-curated exhibit, 'Maine's Untold Vegetarian History,' which opened this month at the Maine Historical Society Museum.
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PublishedMarch 31, 2024
See and hear the history of music in Maine
A sweeping exhibit called 'Music in Maine' is on view at the Maine Historical Society through the end of 2024.
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PublishedMarch 22, 2021
Seminar scheduled on how to talk to children about race, racism
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PublishedApril 16, 2020
Bill Nemitz: The art, and therapy, of the diary in a time of COVID-19
Chit-chat about our new normal on social media is fleeting, but writing it down preserves a piece of Maine history.
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PublishedMarch 29, 2020
Vegan Kitchen: A meat-free diet in Maine is nothing new
In the first half of the 19th-century, some Mainers promoted a vegetarian diet. One doctor wrote that it did for "the wretched invalids what the best medical treatment had utterly failed to do."
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PublishedMay 30, 2019
Children’s book takes a new look at sculptor Bernard Langlais
Writer Pat Davidson Reef updates her biography and signs copies at Maine Historical Society on Thursday.