Maine
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6.0KHow Maine’s High and Mighty Enoch Foster Met His Downfall
Born in 1839, Enoch Foster might well be the prototype for a Maine politician of his era. Graduated from both Bates and...
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4.4K2The Raging Blizzard That Killed Mr. and Mrs. Tarbox in 1819
Samuel Tarbox and his wife are still remembered nearly 200 years after they froze to death in a fearful March snowstorm. To...
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8.9K3Maxine Elliott: The Maine Starlet and Winston Churchill
In all the movies, books and histories that explored the life of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, only a short excerpt from...
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9.4K1The Wreck of the Circus Ship, Royal Tar
In 1836, when the steamship Royal Tar launched the first regular service between St. John, New Brunswick, and Portland, Maine, her owners...
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4.0K1The Eccentric Mainer Who Built the A&P Supermarket Empire
In 1859, George Gilman decided to change careers. At 33 he was an executive in his father's tannery in New York City....
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10.8K2John Greenleaf Whittier and the Real Maud Muller
New England's Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier wrote the sentimental and melancholy story of Maud Muller in 1854. The poem, one of...
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6.2K3How John Marin, America’s Greatest Artist, Vanished from Sight
John Marin, voted America’s greatest artist in 1948, looked like an aging Beatle. An admirer described him as having bangs that reached...
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3.4K1Maine Stamp Act Riot of 1766
News was slow to reach Maine in 1766, and it cost William King dearly. The Maine Stamp Act Riot of 1766 targeted...
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6.7K3Puritans Name, Shame and Take Over Anglican Maine
In 1652, Massachusetts Puritans decided to bring the English Civil War to North America by taking over Anglican Maine. The year before,...
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3.7K1Samuel Williams Watches an Eclipse From Behind British Lines in 1780
The American Revolution was on in 1780, but that didn’t stop Harvard professor Samuel Williams from venturing behind British lines in Maine...
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