In the spring of 1854 “a riotous epidemic” was “prevailing throughout … the country.” While the Kansas-Nebraska Act stoked the flames of abolition, new radical groups formed to divide the moral and political landscape of America. One of these groups had a destructive effect on the City of Bath. Many Americans were frustrated by the mid-18th […]
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Stories from Maine: Brunswick’s red scarf murder
It was late in the evening on Saturday, May 26, 1951, and Shirley Mae Coolen had just left her job at the Bowdoin Hotel restaurant at 115 Maine St., Brunswick. The popular waitress then walked up Maine Street toward Park Row, expecting to meet her ex-husband in front of the Pastime movie theater. It was […]
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Stories from Maine: A hard-fought effort to move a statue to the Midcoast
By April 1939, the Great Depression was nearly over and the United States was ready to celebrate at the World’s Fair in New York, where every state in the Union would have a place to exhibit. Portland artist Victor Kahill wanted to create a statue for this fair, and his composition of a Maine fisherman […]
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Pejepscot History Center fundraises to conserve Joshua L. Chamberlain pieces
Pejepscot History Center, which owns and operates the Joshua L. Chamberlain Museum, is conducting a fundraising campaign for two priceless artifacts in its collection with a Conservation Gala from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 15, at Skyline Farm in North Yarmouth. The event at the museum of horse-drawn transportation and historic site is dedicated to conserving […]
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Stories from Maine: The lost Tiger Squadron
On Sept. 22, 1978, just after noon, eight men of the United States Navy Patrol Squadron VP-8 boarded their Lockheed-built P3-B Orion (designation LC-85) and taxied to the tarmac of the Brunswick Naval Air Station runway and lifted off. Although their intended destination was an air show in Ontario, Canada, neither the plane nor its […]
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Stories from Maine: Brunswick’s Mall, from ‘a primitive and semi-barbaric state’ to today
On July 4, 1825, a group of citizens armed with shovels, pitchforks, hoes, axes and scythes, gathered for a “general assault” on a public nuisance. The enemy before them was a wild and bothersome embarrassment “in a primitive and semi-barbaric state,” which these citizens swore to banish for the greater good of the community. While […]
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Stories from Maine: A most delightful time with first lady Roosevelt
On Saturday morning, Dec. 12, 1942, three young men stood upon the platform of the railroad station in Brunswick. Behind these young men stood one Secret Service agent, a handful of dignitaries and nearly 200 anxious locals. America’s Great Depression was over, yet the country’s fight in World War II had just begun its second […]
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Stories from Maine: A patriot’s war
In the spring of 1775, the Great Rebellion of New England Colonists against the iron-fist of the mighty British Crown were positioning to fight against tyranny; either liberty or death, as Patrick Henry demanded, would be the outcome. In Brunswick, patriot Samuel Thompson, who was a member of the Colonial Provincial Congress, was appointed to […]
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Lincoln Theater to host discussion on history of women in the cartooning field
Lincoln Theater presents a unique event, “An Evening with Liza Donnelly and Heather Cox Richardson,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 25. The New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly and local author and historian Heather Cox Richardson will host a conversation about women cartoonists, American history and Donnelly’s new documentary. At “An Evening with Liza Donnelly and […]
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Stories from Maine: Remembering an icon of labor
Today, labor unions are well established in the Midcoast. But it was not so long ago that one man helped lead the fight to bring organized labor to Bath. Although John William Brown was born at Somersworth, Prince Edward Island, in 1870 he was — like his Massachusetts-born father — a true American. By 1903, […]
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