LIFE Pictures of Maine

The LIFE Photo Archive just announced by Google includes some nice shots of Maine folks. They were taken by Bernard Hoffman for a feature called "Winter in Maine," which appeared in the March 9, 1942, issue of the magazine. Just 16 of the 67 photographs were publish...

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Maine's Bizarre Foods

Next Tuesday at 10pm on the Travel Channel, Bizarre Foods will be coming to Maine.In Maine, many residents find most of the food they eat right in their own backyards...literally. Andrew gets a taste of beaver chili, forages for some unlikely edible plants to make stinging nettles soup, and goes out to haul lobsters with a fishing legend. There's even a culinary death match featuring some bizarre recipes made only with ingredients found in Mai...

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George H. Pray, Potato Juggler

One Union soldier from Maine survived the war by juggling potatoes.During the Civil War, 12,913 inmates died from the extreme conditions in the Confederate prison in Andersonville, Ga. One Union soldier who didn't was Pvt. George H. Pray, a clever Mainer whose stage act perhaps saved his life."How he survived Andersonville was that he juggled potatoes," said Jeffrey Bolduc, Pray's great-great-grandson, recently. "After he juggled them, he kept them and ate them."After the Civil War, Pray made it his mission to strike down boredom wherever it could...

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