Maine
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4.3KKetchup Made With Sugar? An Offense Against God For Some Mainers
The old saying “As Maine goes, so goes the nation,” may have applied to politics, but never to ketchup. The historic novelist...
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2.9KWhen New Englanders Feared a French-Canadian Immigrant Conquest
When French-Canadians came to work in New England’s textile mills in the later 19th century they sparked conspiracy theories of an immigrant...
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3.2K1Beginner’s Guide to the French and Indian Wars, All Six of Them
Before the American Revolution, which everyone knows about, six – count ‘em, six – French and Indian Wars engulfed the region for...
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6.4KThe Ladies of Gray, Maine, Bury an Unknown Confederate Soldier
The Ladies of Gray had good reason to despise the Confederacy and its people. The small Maine town sent 200 of its...
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6.0KIsland Castaways, New England’s Huddled Masses Yearning to Get Well
Island castaways don’t have it easy. Just ask Robinson Crusoe. Yet, for centuries, medical and political authorities relied on the general inaccessibility...
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