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  • Subject starts with "Maine"

BHS Hall Lecture: "Defense of Maine During the American Revolution: Blessed are the Weak"

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Bethel Historical Society Hall Memorial Lecture: "Defense of Maine During the American Revolution: Blessed are the Weak," presented by Dr. James Leamon, professor of history at Bates College, on Friday, August 8, 1997.

BHS Hall Memorial Lecture: "Performing the Paper: Village Learning and Laughter in Postbellum Western Maine"

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Bethel Historical Society Hall Memorial Lecture, "Performing the Paper: Village Learning and Laughter in Postbellum Western Maine" delivered by Jo Radner on September 7, 1998.

BHS Hall Memorial Lecture: "Performing the Paper: Village Learning and Laughter in Postbellum Western Maine"

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Bethel Historical Society Hall Memorial Lecture, "Performing the Paper: Village Learning and Laughter in Postbellum Western Maine," delivered by Jo Radner on September 7, 1998.

BHS Program: "John Francis Sprague and Sprague's Journal of Maine History"

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Bethel Historical Society program, "John Francis Sprague and Sprague's Journal of Maine History," presented by Marius Péladeau, of the L.C. Bates Museum in Hinckley, Maine, on August 5, 1999.

BHS Program: "Louise Dickinson Rich"

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Bethel Historical Society Program, "Louise Dickinson Rich," featuring a panel discussion and held on November 6, 1997.

Panelists include: Jane Rich (Rich's former daughter-in-law), Alice Arlen (her biographer), Ernest Angevine (who lived with the…

BHS program: "Silent Sentinels: Maine's Civil War Monuments"

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Bethel Historical Society program, "Silent Sentinels: Maine's Civil War Monuments," presented by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. on June 1, 2006.

BHS Program: "The Religious Revolution in Maine: 1780 - 1820"

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Bethel Historical Society program, "The Religious Revolution in Maine: 1780 - 1820," presented by Stephen A. Marini on August 28, 1985.

Buy Maine products directory

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Collection: Books and Pamphlets

Charles Horne - Historic Preservations

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Audio recorded by Charles Horne for three segments on Maine Public Radio. These include interviews with Randall H. Bennett on the Moses Mason House and on covered bridges, and interviews with Bernie Wiedman and John Brown concerning the Bethel…

Chronicle [videorecording] [Maine Grange, 1992]

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Boston television station WCVB-TV's "Chronicle" program from May 1, 1992, focusing on the Maine State Grange. Includes commentary from Bethel Historical Society director and Maine State Grange historian Stanley Russel Howe.

Collection: Video Library

Clark S. Edwards, Fifth Maine Volunteer Regiment, compiled letters 1861-1903

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Finding aid for Clark S. Edwards Papers (2002-310) in the Pearce Civil War Collection at Navarro College, Corsicana, Texas. Includes biographical sketch, summary of each letter, and complete transcriptions of all 119 letters.

Collection: Books and Pamphlets

Col. Edwards’ Letter

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COL. EDWARDS’ LETTER. Bethel, Jan. 25th, 1896 My dear friend Stevens:— Your kind letter came to hand in due time; many thanks for the same. You say I may have forgotten you; my answer is, No, I well remember you and other sergeants of that old Co.…

COLL 177: Willard Ames Papers

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Collection of photocopied letters and documents relating to Willard Ames of Greenwood, Maine. Includes Civil War letters from his son, Willard O. Ames, who later died during the war.

Collection: Finding Aids

COLL 186: Walter Wright Scrapbooks

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Scrapbooks compiled by Walter Wright, with newspaper clippings related to Maine history.

Collection: Finding Aids

COLL 2: Oxford County Grange Hall Tour Project

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The Oxford County Grange Hall Tour Project collection includes oral history interviews, slides, photographs, and negatives, and a small number of miscellaneous documents created during the Oxford County County Grange Hall Tour Project in 2000 and…

Collection: Finding Aids

COLL 222: Wyman Johnson Maine Postcard Collection

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Collection of Maine postcards dating from the early 20th century assembled by F. Wyman Johnson of Weston, Massachusetts.

Collection: Finding Aids