John Bapst, a Swiss Jesuit priest, arrived in New York City in 1848 just as Know Nothing bigotry gathered force in the...
The Great Bangor Fire of 1911 wiped out much of the business district, but rebuilding it brought prosperity to a poor French-Canadian...
Brownie Schrumpf was only 4’11” but she had a monumental impact on the way Mainers eat. Over a 70-year career she was...
Peter Edes spent 107 days in a sweltering hellhole of a prison because the British didn’t like his attitude while he watched the...
Peter Edes, 18, ended up in prison on June 19, 1775, after he caught the attention of the British Regulars by watching the Battle...
Fanny Hardy Eckstorm in 1904 published a story about the tragic death of Henry David Thoreau’s Maine guide, a Wabanaki Indian who...