Maine
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2.7K1Shoes Made This Man: Maine’s George Mitchell and his Coppertoe Shoes
As any parent knows, keeping kids in shoes is a constant chore. If they aren’t outgrowing them, they’re destroying them. It was...
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7.7K2Rachel Carson at the Edge of the Atlantic
Before Rachel Carson wrote about the environmental dangers of pesticides in her 1962 book Silent Spring, she wrote several popular science books...
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5.0K5Joshua Chamberlain Writes His Sister About Appomattox Court House
Brig. Gen. Joshua Chamberlain was selected by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to accept Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House....
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3.2KHenry Putnam Discovers the People of Brunswick Are Not Odious
On April 4, 1820, a southern gentleman named Henry Putnam wrote a long letter describing Brunswick, Maine, to a friend back home...
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6.7K3William Gilley, 1st Keeper of the Baker Island Lighthouse
William Gilley in 1828 received a rich reward for his support of John Quincy Adams: A $350-a-year job as keeper of the...
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13.9K17Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Little Lady who Started the Civil War
Did Harriet Beecher Stowe really start the Civil War in 1852? Probably not. But she did force people to think about the...
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