My new webpage, Maine Street Views, drops you in the middle of a road somewhere in Maine. Click the "Jump" button to be transported to another random locati...
Monday, 13 September 2010
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A man from Gorham is credited with bringing baseball to Japan. Horace Wilson, a Gorham farm boy who returned from the Civil War only to go w...
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Old News from Southern Maine offers interesting episodes in York County history. Such as when Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's honey...
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The character Enoch Snow in Carousel was named for a real sea captain from Scarborough known for his clambakes. After moving his family to...
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Elizabeth Burke and Rebecca Pease are finishing up the mural they're painting on the wall of a new parking garage on India Street in Po...
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The World Type Writer Company of Portland—incorporated in Maine Aug. 19, 1886— patented the World Typewriter two months later. Two models ... -
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Oscar nominee Anna Kendrick is a Portland native and Deering High graduate. At Deering High, Kendrick's former drama teacher, Kathleen ...
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Now comes news from Cryptomundo of a "possible Bigfoot sighting a few miles east of the Maine-Canada border near Skiff Lake, NB."...