All posts tagged "Damariscotta"
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61.8K2New England PlacesSix Stunning Gothic Revival Buildings By Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughan didn’t leave much in the way of paper records, but he did change the face of Puritan New England with...
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9.0K1bostonJean-Louis Cheverus, the Catholic Priest Even the Puritans Liked
Boston, today that most Catholic of American cities, had no Catholic church within 300 miles when Father Jean-Louis Lefebvre Cheverus arrived in...
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68.3K15Arts and LeisureHow 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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37.4K1MaineMexico, Maine? Rome, Maine? How Maine Place Names Came To Be
Many Maine place names are not like the rest of New England’s, with Bristols and Yarmouths and Portsmouths named after counterparts in England....
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19.6K5Arts and LeisureTo Discover the Real Bambi, Walt Disney Goes to Maine
When Walt Disney told his artists to model Bambi on a California mule deer, Jake Day insisted the real Bambi had to...
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32.8K13Business and LaborThe Legend of Faneuil Hall’s Golden Grasshopper Weathervane
The truth is more interesting than the legend about the golden grasshopper perched above Faneuil Hall since 1742. The real story links...
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