Maine
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11.1K7Mellie Dunham, Maine Snowshoe Maker, Takes a Meteoric Ride to Stardom on the Vaudeville Circuit
Mellie Dunham was so busy making snowshoes at his family company in Norway, Maine, that he let a letter from Henry Ford...
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6.1K1A New Age Retreat in Eliot, Maine, Saves the Career of Marsden Hartley
Marsden Hartley called himself ‘the artist of Maine.’ He was a renowned Modernist artist who painted manly, rugged scenes of fishermen, mountains...
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14.4K13Flying Santa: Dropping Gifts on Lighthouses Since 1929
The New England Flying Santa tradition was born in the teeth of a fierce winter storm when lighthouse beacons along Penobscot Bay...
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6.4K2Edwin Arlington Robinson, Maine Poet
Something hopeful shines through the dark pessimism of a Christmas poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson, who salvaged friendship and fame from bitter...
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12.9K1Flashback Photo: The First Televised Presidential Debate: Smith vs. Roosevelt
The first televised presidential debate was not, as you might think, in 1960 between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. It was...
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9.5K1How Maine’s Samuel Mayall Brought America its First Woolen Mill
Samuel Mayall didn’t just bring the first woolen mill to America. He gave Maine two of its first businesswomen, and a statesman...
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