Maine
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3.6KOld Town Canoe, Inspired by the Penobscot People
The Old Town Canoe Company couldn’t have started in a better place when it built its first canoe more than a hundred...
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4.1KAshley Bryan, the Maine Man Who Showed the World Black Is Beautiful
Ashley Bryan was not what you’d expect living in the Cranberry Isles, a fishing community off Acadia National Park. Born in Harlem...
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8.2KSt. Martin-in-the-Fields, the London Model for the New England Meetinghouse
New Englanders visiting Trafalger Square in London often get a shock when they see the façade of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. The famous parish...
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4.2KThe Vanceboro Bridge Bombing: Germany’s Secret War on America
On a wretchedly cold Maine night in 1915, a lightly dressed German army lieutenant walked from his hotel and placed 60 pounds...
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4.2KA Brief, Mostly Nonmusical History of Baked Beans
Do not mess with a New Englander over the proper way to cook baked beans. You soak them, you parboil them, you...
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