Maine
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3.8KThe Rise and Fall of the Belfast Broiler Festival
Mainers by the thousands celebrated Waldo County’s Mardi Gras for four decades: the Belfast Broiler Festival. Men from the poultry farms and...
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7.3KIndians Loaned Their Words to English. Now They Want Their Languages Back.
New England Indians loaned many words and place names to the American English language. Now some of them are getting their own...
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6.0KUnderwood Deviled Ham – Six Devilicious Facts About the Boston Pantry Staple
That little can of Underwood Deviled Ham on your grocer’s shelves represents a company that once fed the Union Army, built the...
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15.0K4Moses Davis, The Maine Cabinetmaker Who Built a Fort
A wooden blockhouse that still stands by the Sheepscot River is the unlikely legacy of a cabinetmaker named Moses Davis who strongly disagreed...
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4.8KThe Wiscasset Incident Sets Off Maine’s Indian Wars of 1750
The Wiscasset Incident occurred on December 2, 1749. That day gun shots rang out in the woods of Wiscasset, Maine. Sailors from...
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5.7KRachel Field, Rediscovered on a Maine Island
Rachel Field today is remembered through her children’s book, Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, but she also wrote several bestsellers for adults,...
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