Researching

How indepth do you think the research should be? Talked to Melanie yesterday. She "kinda" assigned me the 'School" project, because I've already done some research on the subject. I was at the Titcomb House yesterday and we do have some random pictures of early schools, but we don't have many. I wish we could come up with some more. We may have to resort to more recent pictures of buildings that were once schools, if they exist. Nancy

I'm also curious what kind of citations we need. . . when we write what we've learned or know, do we have to tell the source of the information? And if so, do they want footnotes or MLA or Chicago style or APA or wikipedia style or. . . ? I would think that would be really helpful for people who want to learn more about the topics we're writing about. Theresa

__A List of Resources from Nancy to share with UMF students and Theresa (and anyone else who doesn't know any history of Farmington)__
 * __Butler's History of Farmington__ by F G Butler
 * __Parker's History of Farmington__ by Thomas Parker
 * (they can access info thru the Maine Gen Web site - I typed the whole thing - Franklin County under Farmington- and if they wanted to, they could print it out)
 * __Pilgrimage Books__ by the Butlers - Ben & Natalie
 * __100 Years of Farmington__ - Richard Mallett
 * Schools - Richard Mallett
 * Richard Mallett wrote another book, but I forget the Title. (I have all three)
 * I've found the Town Reports are helpful. The Town Reports not only give info on town doings, but they include the Supt.'s Report involving all the schools. Those have been extremely helpful for me doing school stuff.

Joan Small at the Library gave Nancy the following names and dates: Western State Normal School Est. Oct 9 1863 Western State Normal School Opened Aug 24 1864 West State Normal School - 1864 - 1868 Northern State Normal School 1878 - 1889 Farmington State Normal School 1889 - 1945 Farmington State Teacher's College 1945- 1965 Farmington State College 1965 - 1968 Farmington State College of the Univ. of Maine 1968 - 1970 University of Maine at Farmington 1970 -