local history
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PublishedApril 30, 2023
Bedside table: ‘The Ride of Her Life’
Book recommendations from readers.
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PublishedApril 20, 2023
Norway’s historic Roberts Farm given new life
The historic structure provides for the local economy and community, 200 years after it was first built.
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PublishedApril 9, 2023
The rise and fall of Monson, Maine
'Here & Everywhere Else' tells the story of the remote town over several hundred years. But be forewarned: it's dense reading.
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PublishedMarch 26, 2023
Bedside table: Way ahead of her time
Book recommendations from readers
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PublishedFebruary 12, 2023
In his latest novel, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Paul Harding fictionalizes Maine’s Malaga Island
In luminous prose, 'This Other Eden' tells a wrenching tale of mixed race islanders forcibly removed by the state.
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PublishedJanuary 22, 2023
Essential reading for students of Portland’s history and admirers of its art
Earle Shettleworth, Jr.'s 'A Century of Portland Artists, 1820-1920' introduces the city and its cultural landscape in the first 100 years of Maine statehood.
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PublishedOctober 2, 2022
‘A Flick of Sunshine’ spins a thrilling yarn about a real-life Bath sailor in the late 19th-century
Father and son Frederick Hill and Alexander Jackson Hill based their book on a treasure trove of old letters they discovered written by a plucky ancestor.
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PublishedSeptember 22, 2022
Cape Elizabeth historical society plans for Fort Williams museum
The Cape Elizabeth Historical Preservation Society hopes to set up a permanent history display at its new location at the old Bachelor Officers' Quarters building.
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PublishedJune 11, 2022
Town Landing Market in Falmouth-Foreside has been sold
Big Tree Hospitality, owner of Eventide Oyster Co., will run the century-old market.
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PublishedMay 1, 2022
Painting by ‘Grandpa Moses’ commemorates Phippsburg’s past
Before his death in 2000, Everett Perkins, a retired Massachusetts police officer turned artist, created dozens of paintings based on his memories of the Midcoast from the dawn of the 20th century.
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