All posts tagged "Maine"
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4.6KCrime and ScandalA Lynching in Maine: What Happened to James Cullen
A lynching in Maine is an unusual thing. Throughout New England, lynching was extremely rare. Most lynching occurred in states in the...
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8.4KCrime and ScandalThe Murder of Mary Bean, Pregnant Mill Girl
One spring day in Saco, Maine, Osgood Stevens, 14, was having trouble clearing debris from Woodbury Brook. He couldn’t dislodge a whitewashed...
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9.0KArts and LeisureKetchup Made With Sugar? An Offense Against God For Some Mainers
The old saying “As Maine goes, so goes the nation,” may have applied to politics, but never to ketchup. The historic novelist...
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6.9KArts and LeisureLois Long, the Flapper Who Roared With the 20s
Lois Long chronicled the escapades of a flapper let loose in New York’s speakeasies and clubs during the infancy of the New...
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7.1K1Arts and LeisureThe Massachusetts Camouflage School that Taught How To Razzle-Dazzle
In 1917, the U.S. government set up a camouflage school for women artists in Marshfield Hills, Mass. About five dozen women artists...
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7.0K1Science and NatureFighting for Independence During a Smallpox Epidemic: Lake Champlain in 1776
Throughout the first six months of 1776, the soldiers of the American Northern Army in Canada fought against two deadly enemies: smallpox...
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