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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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Gordon L. Weil: Democrats forced to change course to prevent GOP sweep

Conventional wisdom is dead. No pundit’s opinion on the election could foresee the assassination attempt on Donald Trump or the debate debacle of Joe Biden. Both events changed everything, especially for the Democrats. Even before these developments, Biden struggled to stay even with Trump in the polls. This is not a good position for an […]

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The Maine Idea: ‘Fighting Joe’ the answer to our Biden woes

William Butler Yeats, the greatest English-speaking poet of the 20th century, foretold our own political crisis in “The Second Coming,” his penetrating depiction of Ireland a century ago: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.” The “best” now are the Democratic Party elite, who even before the June […]

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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 […]