All posts tagged "Aroostook"
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9.3K1New England PlacesThe Six Places That Suffered the Coldest Temperature Ever in a New England State
April in New England may seem cold, but it’s nothing like the months when the coldest temperature is reported. Look for the...
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10.8K10New England PlacesSix Historic Movie Sets in New England
So many New England places have served as historic movie sets that we found it hard to choose one for each state....
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50.5K39ConnecticutThe Little Canadas of New England
Dozens of Little Canadas have contributed a significant but often ignored part of the character and history of New England since the...
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11.1K6Business and LaborThe Great Maine Potato War — The Year the Spuds Didn’t Show Up
It was May of 1976. The Apple Computer Company had started a month ago, The Bad News Bears showed in theaters, kids hummed...
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28.2K3MaineThe Needham, A Potato Candy Sacred and Peculiar to Maine
The Maine potato candy known as the needham has always stood in the shadow of the whoopie pie, but generations of Mainers have...
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19.5K2Politics and MilitaryFort Blunder, America’s Most Embarrassing Gun Battery
The storied gun battery known as Fort Blunder offers a lesson for civil engineers: Before you build, make sure your surveyors know...
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15.8K6MaineThe High Comedy of the (Bloodless) Aroostook War
If only all wars could be like the Aroostook War, a boundary dispute fought mostly with fists rather than cannon. The conflict featured...
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13.8K7Flashback PhotosFlashback Photos: Ashland, Maine, Memorial Day, 1943
More than 300 men were drafted from tiny Ashland, Maine, in Aroostook County, to fight in World War II, and so Memorial Day...
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3.6K5Business and LaborIsaac Stephenson, Bullwhacker on the Aroostook
Nothing Isaac Stephenson ever accomplished gave him as much pure pleasure as breaking in three yoke of green oxen and hauling the...
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