Maine
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3.7K1Maine 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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7.2K4Puritans 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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3.9K1Samuel 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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3.9K2The Mysterious 1852 Voyage of the Arabian, the Fastest Clipper Ship in Maine
In 1852 James Hinds, a ship builder in Calais, Maine, launched the fastest clipper ship ever built in the state. He’d built...
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4.4K2The Panic of 1907 and the Maine Man Who Caused It
You might suppose the Federal Reserve banking system was begun in response to the great stock market crash of 1929, but it...
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35.9K14How the Real Miss Rumphius Decorated Maine With Lupines
There was a real Miss Rumphius who lived in Christmas Cove and secretly planted lupine seeds to adorn Maine’s roadsides and meadows....
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10.2K3Six Colonial Homes by Wallace Nutting
Wallace Nutting was a dyspeptic minister so overwhelmed by urban life and modern values that he led countless Americans into a nostalgic...
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15.4K6USS Squalus Rescue: World Awaits News of Sailors’ Fate
In 1939, the greatest submarine rescue in history was undertaken off the coast of Portsmouth, N.H. This is the second part of...
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9.4K3Six (And More) Mothers Who Left a Mark on History
Mothers have always had to balance competing demands, and some of those who did it best made history. Mindful that Mother’s Day...
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5.1K2The Strange Life and Stranger Afterlife of Maine’s Elmer McCurdy
On October 11, 1911 an Oklahoma Sherriff’s posse had Elmer McCurdy on the run. The Maine man – a plumber-turned-outlaw – had...
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