The WPA Guide to Maine by Federal Writers' Project

Author:Federal Writers' Project
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781595342171
Publisher: Trinity University Press

CULTURAL LANDMARKS

THE pride of Maine, her distinguished sons and daughters, is accorded enough recognition within the State to refute satisfactorily the often-repeated saying about the prophet in his own land. Many communities throughout Maine boast a local museum dedicated to the memory of the celebrity who was born or who once lived there. The Longfellow houses are, of course, the most famous of these, and they reflect in their design the tradition of gracious living which the poet always represented. But the homes of Sarah Orne Jewett and Lillian Nordica are likewise shrines to many pilgrims, as are those houses made famous by transient human genius which are not open to the public, but which are constantly pointed to with pride by remembering neighbors. The L. D. M. Sweat Museum is at once a memorial to a prominent Portland family and a municipal art gallery.

Maine’s educational institutions are here represented by four pictures. Fryeburg Academy is the old boarding-school where Daniel Webster started out in life at the age of twenty as a ‘preceptor.’ The view of the library at Bowdoin College, its central building, is an unusual one.

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