NEWS FROM THE ARCHIVES
Summertime!
A jump in the pool is the universal sign of summer, and the television news was there to report it during the 1970s. (Union St. Pool 1970) There was also the occasional sweltering day, captured on film as well. (Downtown Bangor during July 1970)
Hurricane Season
The devastating weather in Florida and the Gulf of Mexico region may seem remote and seasonally early to us in New England. For some among us there are memories of such storms close to home in our own Gulf. Hurricanes Carol and Edna slashed through Maine 70 years ago, and though the coverage of those
Lighthouse Touring
Visiting a lighthouse along the coast of Maine is a traditional tourist experience. This WLBZ news clip of the Bear Island Lighthouse near Northeast Harbor captures how difficult the experience can be be for those who want an offshore view. Bear Island Lighthouse: https://collection.oldfilm.org/Detail/occurrences/29373
Pomp & Circumstance
Graduation ceremonies are presentations with certain grandeur and layered emotion. These images from WABI’s coverage of Husson College’s commencements in the early 1970s are familiar and stirring to those in the audience then, and are probably even more so to those viewing them now. Husson College Graduation Ceremony 1970 Husson College Ceremonies 1971
Floating like a butterfly
Summer breezes and sunny days ease the distance I travel to work. The time inside is still spent at a desk and in front of a screen. The images of a proud Mohammad Ali, in preparation for his famous phantom punch 60 years ago, as he meets Sonny Liston during May 1965 in Lewiston, Maine,
1967 Potato Blossom Festival Revisited
Sorting and reviewing the details of each collection is my the daily work now, supported by the NEH grant to Northeast Historic Film for preparing the stored collections of Maine’s many television film archives, housed but often not discoverable. It is thrilling to find parades, interviews and investigations almost forgotten but now recollected, and
