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The MSM is going to Augusta’s Family Fun Night! 🗓⏰Thursday, 8/3, 5:30 - 8:30 PM🌧☀ Mill Park, rain or shine!❓Organized by the Augusta PD and featuring several business and non-profit partners, this free event brings a wide range of food, music, and fun to downtown Augusta! 🎉

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What’s that bobbing on the water?🌊 Maine’s coast wouldn’t be the same without lobster buoys!

This buoy was likely used by Stephen Lord in the 1960s. He was born in Waterville and worked in the funeral home business, and probably fished for lobster on the side.

MSM 72.162.3

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During the Civil War, Capitol Park was used as a campsite and parade ground? Learn more during a guided tour. Every Tues & Wed in July & August, 🌧☀️rain or shine!⏰Time: 11:00am and12:00pm.✏️ Walk-in: no reservations needed.🤝Meet: in the park across from 19 Union Street.

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🪡 This is Maine’s oldest known dated quilt! 🎨The quilt’s muted blues, browns, and pinks were much more vibrant when an unknown quilter made it almost 220 years ago in 1804.Thanks to the late Judy Roche of Belfast for making this beautiful piece a part of the MSM collections.

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Our latest e-newsletter is here! 👀Join MSM educators as they prepare for Augusta’s Family Fun Night, read a thank you note from a 4th grader who visited the State House and Blaine House, and learn more about the oldest known documented Maine quilt.
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☀️ Summer is a great time to visit Maine’s beautiful Capitol! Guided tours are offered weekdays at both the 🏛 State House and the 🏘 Blaine House.🌳 If that isn’t enough history in one place, how about adding a historic tour of scenic Capitol Park! https://t.co/eBKdbA0MaS

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🎇 Happy 4th of July! 🎉

📷 This is a house in Wiscasset decorated for Independence Day, July 4, 1902.

Joseph E. Leighton Collection, MSM 91.26.459

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We celebrate Samantha Smith’s birthday and her message of☮️The MSM has objects that Samantha received as gifts during her visit to the Soviet Union.Her mother Jane recently donated items belonging to Sam, giving us a glimpse into the life of a middle schooler in Maine in the 80's

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🪡 In 1889, Maria Stella Lalanne Tartre (1867-1946) created this baptismal ensemble in anticipation of her first child, Charles Wilfred Tartre, who was born in Biddeford. Over 150 of her grand and great-grandchildren would wear pieces of the ensemble in their own ceremonies.

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🦣 Want to know more about the first excavation of a mammoth in Maine?!🎧 listen to Maine Calling, today at 11:00 as artist, author, and former MSM curator Gary Hoyle talks about his new book "Mystery Tusk: Searching for Elephants in the Maine Woods."

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✨ For over 150 years Juneteenth has commemorated the end of slavery in the United States. 🗓1 year ago Juneteenth was first recognized as a holiday in the State of Maine. 📜 DOE has a collection of resources for celebrating and teaching about Juneteenth.
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In 1904, Hollon Rawnsley of Springvale bought a $125.00, 2 cylinder, 8 ½ hp engine, constructed a car around it, and the Rawnsley Runabout was created.🔧76 years later, Hollon’s son Byron refurbished the car with his own son’s and later gave it to the museum. Happy Father's Day!

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🌱 Does anyone keep a farm or garden journal? 📜 The Maine State Museum’s collection includes many farm journals, this one is from the Haskell family from Surry. ✏️ They carefully made note of all of the small farm’s planting and harvesting cycles from 1889-1908.

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https://t.co/KYcSXC6QUR The June Museum Roundup is here! Check out our latest e-newsletter. 👨‍🌾 Get a detailed look at life on a 19th century farm in ME, 🔎see what came up for viewing at the Friend’s appraisal fair, ✨and join one family as they reconnect through an heirloom.

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🏳️‍🌈 Celebrate #Pride by checking out USM’s LGBTQ+ Collection. 🏳️‍⚧️ It is part of the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, and consists of collections of personal papers and archives of organizations active in the LGBTQ+ communities of Maine.
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💫When this object was donated to the museum in 1968 it was recorded as a group of slate samples from the Blanchard Slate Mining Company of Piscataquis County.🔎While researching the collection recently, we discovered these “samples” were actually a hand-carved fan made of slate!

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👩‍🎓 It's the season for graduation ceremonies! 🎉
📷 This is a graduating high school class from Wiscasset Academy in the early 1900’s. Young men and women hold rolled diplomas with 💐 flowers and 🪄 baton. One student has a "Votes for Women" banner on her lap. #WiscassetMaine

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✨ Please join us in welcoming Chase Gagne as the museum’s Natural Science Collections Manager! 🌿 The museum’s natural science collections are already benefiting from Chase’s expertise, enthusiasm, and varied interests!

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🪡 This decorative wall quilt was created in 2000, by women veterans, and in memory of women veterans through the Women's Health Clinic at Togus. 🧵
The finished quilt hung in the old location of the women’s clinic on the 5th floor at the VA hospital until in 2014.#MemorialDay

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Rosen's was a department store in ME for over 100 years until 2013.Robert and Sarah Rosen were Jewish immigrants from Russia and came to Maine in the late 1800s.Opening their first store in Baileyville in 1910 and later moving it to Bucksport. This shirt was made in the 1990's.