The Brick Store Museum’s new digital story map allows viewers to explore the town’s history from the comfort of home.
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She found an old photo, then reimagined her grandmother’s life
With ‘Indignity,’ Lea Ypi rescues her Albanian forebear, who grew up in the Ottoman Empire, from the flattening bureaucratic archives.
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At Portland’s Victoria Mansion, an artist considers a history of slavery
The museum commissioned a painting to illuminate sparse records.
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Portland photos from the 1980s show the city’s grittier days
The exhibit ‘Lapsed Time’ is on view at the Maine Historical Society in Portland through Dec. 31, featuring 24 black-and-white images by photographer David Etnier.
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This Portland home for sale is older than the Constitution
The Captain Jesse Partridge house has been listed for $1.4 million.
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Local actors haunt town as ghosts of Yarmouth’s past
Reviving characters of the town’s history, Stroll Haunted Yarmouth will offer spooky tours of the historic cemetery complete with phantoms.
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Midcoasters collected scraps and made sacrifices during World War II
Just months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, launching the United States into World War II, America began an unprecedented civilian effort to gather and recycle materials that would ultimately ensure victory in Europe and the Pacific. When war production in the United States moved American production “from refrigerators to machine guns,” a […]
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Brunswick recreation area named in honor of family that led others to freedom
The town-owned land will be named after the Heustons, a farming family from East Brunswick who were active in the Underground Railroad.
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Abbe Museum returning funerary cultural objects to Wabanaki Nations
Many of the objects sat unknowingly in a University of Maine collection for years because a loan to an archaeologist was never recorded.
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What our coastal sailboats tell us about our history
Last week, I wrote about two things that often pique my interest — place names and floating vessels. I could fill many more columns to come with variations on each of those themes and also how they often intersect. So, on that theme, or perhaps both of them, I am following up on my column […]