All posts tagged "Kennebunk"
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5.9K30New England PlacesSix New England Places With a Unique Name
The early English and Scots-Irish settlers tended not to give a new settlement a unique name. Many New England place names came...
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9.1K6New England PlacesThe Oldest Business in Each New England State
Family-owned businesses are becoming a thing of the past as Amazon and Walmart gobble up the consumer’s dollar. But there are exceptions...
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8.8K1MassachusettsThe China Trader Who Built the Lyman Estate
The Lyman Estate in Waltham, Mass., commemorates one of the greatest China traders of his age, Theodore Lyman. Few other memorials, written...
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9.9K7Business and LaborThe Bates Bedspread of Maine, America’s Favorite Counterpane
The Bates Bedspread, once found in nearly every household, has links to presidents, First Ladies, a famous midwife and countless women who...
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58.4K16MaineThe Year a State Burned: Maine Fires of 1947 Wipe Out 9 Towns
A plume of smoke near Dolliver’s dump signaled the end of Bar Harbor’s splendid era and the worst of the terrifying Maine...
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17.9K1MaineMexico, 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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3.5K1MaineEight-Year-Old Carleton Nicholls Stands Up For Freedom of Speech … and Sits Down
In October of 1935, Lynn, Mass., schools expelled eight-year-old Carleton Nicholls for refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag,...
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43.1K28Business and LaborThe Invention of the Fried Clam
On July 3, 1916, Lawrence ‘Chubby’ Woodman invented the fried clam – or at least as we know the revered mollusk today. It...
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10.2K15MassachusettsThe Great Snow Hurricane of 1804
On Oct. 9, 1804, a snow hurricane struck Eastern New England, the first time in recorded history a tropical storm produced snowfall....
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8.3K14Business and LaborFlashback Photos: New England’s Love Affair With Ice Cream
New England’s long love affair with ice cream burst into full flower with the soda fountain, where it was served, and the...
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