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Bangor Maine 2012 Calendar

This item is our 2012 calendar celebrating the city of Bangor, Maine. This calendar includes over 25 photos of particular historical and cultural significance for the city. The calendar is printed on heavy weight, photo quality, museum grade paper and is bound with a plastic comb binder to allow it to open flat for wall or desk display. When closed, it measures 8 1/2"x11. When open the calendar measures 11"x17". Each month features a large photo suitable for framing. Each calendar comes in its own clear, plastic, self-sealing sleeve and packed and shipped in a rigid, secure mailing envelope to protect your new collectible calendar.

Each photo in the Bangor Maine Photo Exhibit from which the Bangor Maine 2012 Calendar photographs are drawn, are available enlarged to 8 1/2"x 11" for $10.00 plus shipping, 13"x19" for $15.00 plus shipping and 17"x22" for $20.00 plus shipping. Certain photos from the Bangor Maine Photo Exhibit are available matted, framed, wired and ready to hang at Rebecca's Gifts on Maine Street in Bangor, Maine and at the gift shop at The Acadia Hospital on Stillwater Avenue in Bangor, Maine.

Each photo from the Bangor Maine Photo Exhibit is available as a handmade silk & canvas pillow with photos from the Bangor Maine Photo Exhibit printed on the front silk panel and solid black canvas duck making up the back. The pillow is finished with rugged seams and an overlap slit on the back for easy access to the inside finished pillow during washing. Each picture on the front of the pillow is framed with a solid color particularly chosen to bring out the colors in the photo. Pillows measure 22"x17" and are available for $40.00 plus $6.00 shipping.

Bangor is located at the site of confluence of the Kendeskeag and Penobscot Rivers, for years known as the tidal head, where the river becomes the bay at the site of a great dam that spanned the river for most of the cities early history. In 1525 Estavan Gomez, a Portuguese mariner sailing for King Charles V of Spain was the first known settler to visit the site, followed by the French explorer, Samuel de Champlain who sailed the river after starting a settlement on an island off the East Coast of Maine. Fishing, fur trading and lumbering help colonize and enrich the area for the next 300 years. In 1820 Maine became and independent state from Massachusetts. The flourishing forests surrounding the area helped bring industry, shipbuilding, lumber exports and people and their cultures from all over the world, first becoming known as the “lumber capital of the world” and then a hub for the paper and pulp industry. Today, the Bangor area is the commercial, educational and social center for North, Central and Eastern Maine, the third largest city in the state that is at the front door of Acadia National Park, Baxter State Park, Moosehead Lake Region and West Branch Water Way, allowing easy access to some of the most pristine natural beauty this country can offer. Bangor boasts of a rich aviation history with its military base turned International Airport, an Aviation Historical Museum, its many grass strip airfields and seaplane bases in the past and present. The world oldest and largest annual seaplane fly in is held nearby on Moosehead Lake, only minutes away by both land and air. This calendar emphasizes the city with its old and new buildings, industry and great history on the water.