Many of the items in the permanent collection on the upper floors deal with the subject matter of the new exhibit at the Maine MILL in the Bates Mill Complex in Lewiston.
Photos on a series of panels at the Maine MILL help tell the story of Maine’s labor force in the early 1900s.
David Thibodeau of Hallowell shares a laugh with Jane Brooks of Athens while browsing through the Maine Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Mechanic Falls recently. Thibodeau's father, Sam Tidwell, was inducted into the hall. Brooks was inducted in 2019.
Ken Brooks, left, of Athens, talks recently with David Thibodeau of Hallowell at the Maine Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Mechanic Falls. Thibodeau's father, Sam Tidwell, was inducted into the hall as was Brooks, in 2012. Brooks is chairman of the museum and hall of fame's board of directors.
Jane Brooks of Athens was inducted into The Maine Country Music Hall of Fame in 2019. She was recently at the Hall of Fame and Museum in Mechanic Falls.
Members of the Maine Country Music Hall of Fame have signed a guitar that hangs on the museum wall in Mechanic Falls.
Jane Brooks was inducted into the Maine Country Music Hall of Fame in 2019.
The Maine Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is located at 272 Lewiston St. in Mechanic Falls.
The Maine Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is located in the basement of the Silver Spur at 272 Lewiston St. in Mechanic Falls.
David Thibodeau of Hallowell looks through the Maine Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Mechanic Falls. Thibodeau's father, Sam Tidwell, was inducted into the hall.
Ken Brooks looks over the walls of the Maine Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Mechanic Falls. Brooks, of Athens, was inducted into the hall in 2012.
This caricature of Maine country music legend Dick Curless is on display at the Maine Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Mechanic Falls.
Betty Cody's tape "Singin Again" is displayed at the Maine Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Mechanic Falls.
The Lone Pine Mountaineers with Auburn's Betty Cody and Hal Lone Pine, circa 1940.
Hal Lone Pine and Ken MacKenzie are inductees of the Maine Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Mechanic Falls.
Dick Curless, a Fort Fairfield native, was one of the first three to be inducted into the Maine Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Mechanic Falls.
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