All posts tagged "Mount Desert Island"
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12.0K2Arts and Leisure6 Places That Appear in Currier & Ives Prints
Currier & Ives produced thousands of hand-colored lithographs that together create a panorama of the mid-19th century. The firm got its start...
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20.7K6Business and Labor6 Historic Stagecoach Stops You Can Visit
The history of New England’s post roads and their stagecoach stops mirror the history of the country. The roads date back to...
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23.8K7Science and NatureThe Purple Fire Snowstorm of 1853 – 20 Minutes of Terror Downeast
A snowstorm raged for a full day in Downeast Maine on March 13, 1853, when at sundown the winds suddenly grew calm....
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22.5K6Arts and LeisureBeatrix Farrand Breaks the (Green) Glass Ceiling
Famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1893 dismissed 21-year-old Beatrix Farrand as a dilettante gardener, but six years later she had...
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