On singing along to songs from the 1940s and recalling kindnesses extended to those in tractor cabs.
maine history
Posted inLocal & State
Hannibal Hamlin bash spotlights Lincoln’s vice president, and a town rich in 19th-century charm
A celebration Saturday in Paris Hill calls attention to the often-overlooked village where Abraham Lincoln’s first vice president was born.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Sports
Bates College’s baseball team once played the Ku Klux Klan (and won)
At least two New Engand baseball teams after the Civil War were named after the KKK, including one in Bangor
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
A forgotten 19th-century Maine comic writer gets his day in the sun
Lots of fascinating material in ‘Diggio, Haybis Korpus & E Plewrisy Unicorn!’ if you can get past the fact that the imaginary Ethan Spike was a ‘reprehensible bigot.’
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Challenging the ‘old fogeys’ by starting a newspaper
The Lewiston Falls Journal, the community’s first newspaper, rolled off the press 175 years ago today.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Border dispute between Maine’s two oldest towns heads to court
York and Kittery are at odds over the exact location of a section of the border between the towns first drawn 370 years ago.
Posted inBooks, Food
New England’s first nature guidebook turns 350
Written by an Englishman living in Maine, the rare book identifies the region’s native plants and animals and offers natural remedies galore.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Decades ago, Ukrainian refugees found ‘heaven’ on farms in Maine
From 1949 to 1955, refugee families from Ukraine, Poland and Estonia stayed at Freedom Farm in Kennebunkport as they built new lives in America. Some later moved to farms in Kennebec County.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Maine should recognize inherent rights of Wabanaki tribes
Tribal sovereignty was bargained away unfairly more than 40 years ago, and the Indigenous people in the state continue to suffer for it.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Black History Month: Both Portland and Maine complicit in economics of slavery
Via trade with the West Indies, the labor of enslaved Africans built our state and its largest city.