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The University of Southern Maine has six club sports teams. They include ice hockey, men's rugby, men's volleyball, women's volleyball, dance team, and esports. [ 51 ] The largest club is the USM Esports team, a competitive video gaming team, with 170 participating students during the 2023-2024 academic year.
Festivals unique to the United States (and Canada and Mexico in some cases) include pow wows, Rocky Mountain Rendezvous, blues festivals, county fairs, state fairs, ribfests, and strawberry festivals. The first U.S. state fair was that of New York, held in 1841 in Syracuse, and has been held annually to the present year. [1]
The Art Gallery is located at the southern edge of the USM Gorham campus, at the northeast corner of University Way and College Avenue, west of the Gorham town center. It is a rectangular wood-frame structure, about 42 by 60 feet (13 m × 18 m), with a front-facing gable roof, clapboard siding, and a stone foundation.
HOUSES: Art Department Studios [2] Art Gallery: 1821 HOUSES: Art Gallery [2] William J. Corthell Hall 1878, expanded 1905 HOUSES: USM School of Music Concert Hall Originally the sole classroom building on the Gorham Normal School campus. [2] Robie-Andrews Hall [3] 1898 [3] (Robie), 1916 (Andrews) HOUSES:
The first fair was held at the Litchfield Fairgrounds as a fundraiser for MOFGA. It raised $22,000. [4] In 2016, a Portland Press Herald article about the fair's history said: A very small item about the first Common Ground Country Fair ran in the Portland Press Herald on Sept. 2, 1977 under the headline “Fair to Have Extra Features.”
The Southern Highland Craft Guild is headquartered at the Folk Art Center at milepost 382 [2] of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville, North Carolina. The Folk Art Center also houses the Guild's century-old Allanstand Craft Shop, [3] three galleries of exhibitions, a research library, and a large auditorium. The Guild crafts are seen by about a ...
The Albert Brenner Glickman Family Library (formerly the Portland Campus Library) is an academic library operated by the University of Southern Maine on its campus in Portland, Maine. The building, which stands 7 stories tall, was dedicated by Governor Angus King in October 1997. It was named after the Glickman family following a $1 million ...
The Union Fair is an annual agricultural fair in Union, Maine. [1] It began in 1869 and, since 1886, all fairs in Knox County have taken place in Union. [2] [3] No fair was held in 1917–18, 1942–45 nor 2020. For many years the fair started on the third Saturday before Labor Day and run for eight days closing on the following Saturday. The ...