January10, 1977
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MAINE ARCHITECTURE FEATURED IN OCTAGON EXHIBIT
Mr. MUSKIE. Mr. President, my home State of Maine is perhaps best known for her coast, and her unspoiled rural beauty. Maine's beauty is, of course, much more than that, as E. B. White's Stuart Little discovered on his trip North:
In the loveliest town of all, where the houses were white and high and the elm trees were green and higher than the houses, where the front yards were wide and the back yards were worth finding out about, in this loveliest of all towns Stuart stopped to get a drink of sarsaparilla.
For those of my colleagues who have not had occasion to visit one of our lovely communities, I call their attention to a survey of the architectural heritage of Maine on exhibit at Octagon House beginning January 12. It is a heritage with which we Mainers are blessed, and of which we are proud, indeed.
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that a descriptive announcement of the exhibit be printed in the RECORD.
There being no objection, the announcement was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows:
MAINE ARCHITECTURE FEATURED IN OCTAGON EXHIBIT
A survey of the architectural heritage of the state of Maine will be the focus of the Octagon's first exhibition in the 1977 program.
The exhibition, entitled "Maine Forms of American Architecture" will be on view from January 12, 1977 through March 10, 1977. Originating at the Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, Maine, the exhibition includes paintings, photographs, architects' drawings, models and three-dimensional objects. Among the artifacts are "View of the Original Statehouse" by Charles Codman, a flag pole model of a Greek Revival church, a quilt patterned by schoolhouse motifs, an isometric view of Poland Hill Village of the Alfred Shaker Community, office signs, sheet music, and architectural features including a wooden fan from a Federal period front door.
"Maine Forms of American Architecture"received the largest single grant awarded by the Maine Bicentennial Commission which was in turn matched by contributions from the Friends of Art of the Colby College Art Museum and private donors. The exhibition was also the recipient of installation grants from the Maine State Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
The exhibition is accompanied by a book of the same title. A publication of Down East Magazine and edited by Deborah Thompson, the exhibition director, it includes 132 color and black and white illustrations. The catalogue is available for purchase at the Octagon.
Institutional lenders to the exhibition include the Colby College Art Museum, the Avery Architectural Library, Columbia University, the Maine Historical Society, the Maine State Museum and the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.