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Maine History
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‘No hunting ground left — the moose, the deer and beaver are all gone’
A newly discovered 1839 letter spotlights the poverty and powerlessness of a Penobscot Nation trying to survive.
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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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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
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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.
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Lewiston’s Lessard-Bissonnette to be honored with historical marker
Plaque to be unveiled this week remembering contributions of a French-speaking suffrage advocate.
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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.
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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
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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.