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It's Football Season!
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! It’s time for football! In 1921, a Bangor news article admonished spectators to “give the...
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Oct 20, 2024


Another Millinocket Newspaper Discovered!
The Millinocket Herald , Vol. 1, No. 5 is the first copy of this paper to become part of the MHS newspaper collection. The issue date was...
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Oct 13, 2024


Music Festival in Millinocket
“A Baton and Band Good Time at Music Festival” is the headline in The Millinocket Herald for May 7, 1941. The feature story tells that...
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Oct 6, 2024


G.B. Moran's Stores
Gilbert B. Moran came from Island Falls to the area that would be Millinocket in 1899 and established a men’s clothing store and shoe...
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Sep 29, 2024


Millinocket HS vs Oxford St. School
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! Is it Millinocket High School or Oxford Street School? Photos keep appearing on Facebook and...
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Sep 22, 2024


The Cemetery
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! Plans for a Millinocket cemetery in its current location off Medway Road were made early in...
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Sep 15, 2024


Old Photo Viewers
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! Have you viewed slides through a stereoscope/stereopticon? Young visitors at the museum are intrigued by...
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Sep 8, 2024


Lewiston Weekly Journal, 1899, Part 3, Millsite
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! The story from the Lewiston Weekly Journal, Oct. 26, 1899 continues with part 3…the millsite (Note:...
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Sep 1, 2024


Lewiston Weekly Journal, Oct. 1899, Getting Into Town
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! The story from the Lewiston Weekly Journal, Oct. 26, 1899 continues…from the train to town! (Note:...
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Aug 25, 2024


Lewiston Weekly, Oct. 1899, Millinocket Train Station
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! “Maine’s Magic City – Millinocket. A Wonderous Town Built in Almost a Day and a Night Alone” is the...
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Aug 18, 2024


Ham Radio Cards
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! W1KEZ was the call sign for Eugene H. Fairley of Millinocket, a ham (or amateur) radio...
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Aug 11, 2024


Looking Back!
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! Forty-five years ago, 1979, the Millinocket Historical Society Museum opened in the Millinocket Municipal...
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Aug 4, 2024


All the News That Fits We Print!
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! “All the news that fits, we print!” That statement was part of the introduction to Millinocket’s newest...
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Jul 28, 2024


A Wonderful Collection!
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! The museum collection is constantly growing and contains a wide variety of items and photos. Everything...
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Jul 21, 2024


The Telephone
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! Since 1877, the telephone has been a means of communication and the instrument has gone through many...
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Jul 14, 2024


Happenings at the Museum!
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! Busy…that describes the activity at the museum the last few weeks and it is expected to continue that way...
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Jul 7, 2024


The Dance Recitals
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! M. Dana Small, Joseph McCluskey, Lorraine Shippee, Veronica Carbonneau and Sandy Hartley are some who have...
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Jun 30, 2024


Hikel's, An Early Business
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! When Millinocket was just beginning, people came from many parts of the world to help build the mill and...
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Jun 23, 2024


The Geller Books
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! The newest Bill Geller book Chesuncook Passages, 1903-1971: Loggers, Settlers, & Sports arrived at the...
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Jun 16, 2024


News from the Millinocket Herald-Tribune, 1947
Odds and Ends From The MUSEUM! There have been a number of Millinocket newspapers published over the years. One was the Millinocket...
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Jun 9, 2024
