In commemoration of Maine’s bicentennial this year, The Forecaster is featuring historical highlights from our communities’ past 200 years, in print and online every other week.
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Posted inCoastal Journal
Coastal History: Fly Rod Crosby
Ah, the famous Maine Guide. A tall, stout, square-jawed Teddy Roosevelt of the 21st century. Able to rescue a tourist with one hand and kill a bear with the other, a Maine Guide is the manliest of men. Unless she’s a woman, of course … as the very first Maine Guide happened to be. Tall and […]
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Posted inFood, Green Plate Special, Recipes
Green Plate Special: What can Maine cooks in 1820 teach us about cooking today?
A lot, as it turns out. Eating locally and sustainably in 1820 was just what you did.
Posted inFood, Maine Gardener
Maine Gardener: What was the state of gardening when Maine became a state?
Only the wealthy could afford ornamental gardens. Almost everybody else grew vegetables to eat.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Sen. King: Happy birthday, Maine – here’s to another 200 years of prosperity, community and common sense
On March 15, the anniversary of the day that we became the 23rd state, a look back on the people and events that have brought us to this milestone.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
Obscure chapter of Maine’s history – 19th-century spiritualist camp – has unexpected resonance
Writer Mira Ptacin skillfully blends history, contemporary storytelling and memoir in ‘The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna.’
Posted inBicentennial, Local & State
It’s a celebration 200 years in the making
‘It isn’t just history buffs’ anticipating Maine’s bicentennial – two centuries of statehood. The marquee event is next Sunday at the Augusta Armory.
Posted inBicentennial, Local & State, News
Colony, Chapter IV: Insurrection
An uprising against Massachusetts land barons sets the stage for statehood.
Posted inCoastal Journal
Coastal History: William King’s shipping troubles
It’s hard to imagine a time when the United States was not a world superpower. The U.S. was just a small fry on the global stage, however, when future Gov. William King was running his shipping business in the late 18th to early 19th centuries. According to the book “General William King,” by Marion Jaques […]
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Truth and Reconciliation commissioners: Land claims act overhaul will help deliver justice to tribes in Maine
L.D. 2094 provides an opportunity to face the harms that the state has done to Natives and to work to restore their lost sovereignty.