All posts tagged "Augusta Maine"
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66.8KConnecticutThe Greatest New England High School Football Rivalries
New England high school football rivalries go back to the days when teams traveled by stagecoach to visit their opponents. When there...
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6.5K2Arts and LeisureCornelia Fly Rod Crosby, The First Maine Guide
Cornelia Fly Rod Crosby accomplished what legions of outdoor sportsmen can only dream of, and she did it in the 1890s: She...
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9.6K8Arts and LeisureJohn Calvin Stevens, Designer of Maine (Especially Those Shingle Style Houses)
John Calvin Stevens left an indelible mark on Maine by designing more than a thousand buildings in the state over his six-decade...
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9.1K7MaineMartha Ballard, Midwife. As Good As, In Some Ways Better Than, the Best Doctors
Martha Ballard somehow managed to deliver 797 babies in the frontier community of Hallowell (now Augusta), Maine, between 1785 and 1812. She...
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6.0K7Arts and LeisureEastman Johnson Paints ‘The Cranberry Harvest, Island of Nantucket’
The name of Eastman Johnson is inscribed above the entrance to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for a...
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3.4K3Arts and LeisureJune 12, 1843: Lydia Patterson Meets ‘Very Familiar’ Girls at the High School for Misses
Lydia Patterson didn’t want to seem too nosy during her first hour at boarding school in Portland, Maine, on June 12, 1843....
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