Throughout the school year 2010-2011 more than 120 7th grade students in Mr. Ron Bilancia's quarterly Maine Studies classes worked on this project. All students received instruction on how to handle artifacts and how to scan these artifacts. They also learned how to do "Good History." One day each week students were divided into four groups: one scanning artifacts with Bill Cook, Bangor Public Library Special Collections librarian, and the other three working with teacher Ron Bilancia, librarian Priscilla Soucie, Bangor Museum and History Center curator, Dana Lippitt and local historian, Dick Shaw, researching and/or cataloging primary sources to find information on the floods of 1902 and 1976 and ultimately writing the text for this exhibit.
