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.

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

From ‘bone-shakers’ to ‘penney-farthings’ and beyond: How bicycles rolled out in Lewiston in the 1800s

'Bicycle fever' reached Lewiston in 1879, according to the Lewiston Evening Journal, and would go on to shake, rattle and roll into everyday life.

Lewiston’s Lessard-Bissonnette to be honored with historical marker

Plaque to be unveiled this week remembering contributions of a French-speaking suffrage advocate.

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.

A former Auburn man’s high-flying ‘airship’ caught the world’s attention in 1897

The true story of the once-acclaimed but now forgotten "Professor Barnard" and his fabulous flying machine

Franco Fridays: St. Peter’s School boys show off their sports gear, 1925

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.

A boat, a pole, a dead husband. The tale of Katherine Cornish, Maine’s first execution for murder

Maine’s first murder trial, in 1644, was for a self-admitted adulteress who was found guilty with ample acknowledgment she was a “hussey” and a shocking lack of evidence she was a murderer.

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.