Maine
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21.1KThe Greatest New England High School Football Rivalries
New England high school football rivalries go back to the days when teams traveled by stagecoach to visit their opponents. When there...
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10.0K2How To Talk Like a Mainer
If you want to talk like a Mainer, there’s a lot more to it than ‘ayuh’ and ‘Bah Hahbah.’ And if you’re...
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7.0K5Eight Great Zingers by Bette Davis, Yankee Gal
The legendary movie actress Bette Davis called herself the “Yankee-est gal who ever came down the pike.” She was born and educated...
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11.7KThe Boon Island Cannibals of Maine
On a frosty New Year’s Day in 1711, the York County coroner was summoned to examine a frozen body discovered in a...
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4.0K1Charles Shay, An Indian War Hero on Omaha Beach
Charles Shay, a 19-year-old Penobscot Indian, landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day. Under heavy German fire, he bandaged the wounded and pulled...
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11.6KThe Ku Klux Klan Fights the Battle of Greenville, Maine
In 1924, dozens of Ku Klux Klan members paraded through the tiny logging town of Greenville, Maine, to bully some outsiders into...
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