Edgar Wilson Nye left Maine (he was born in the small town of Shirley) as a small child, but somehow the dry...
John Jacob Astor made a fortune. But did he do it as a fur trader, as he told everyone? Or, did he...
Why did Richard Cory shoot himself? Because Maine’s Edwin Arlington Robinson wanted it that way. Robinson was born in Gardiner, Maine in...
In 1773, librarian Jared Bean published his Old Librarians Almanack in New Haven, Conn., following the traditional format of Poor Richard’s almanac....