All posts tagged "rockland maine"
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6.5K1Crime and ScandalSteamboat City of Rockland – The Cursed Ship of The Tourist Trade
Construction started on the City of Rockland at East Boston’s McKie Shipbuilding Company in 1900 and by 1901 she was sailing regular...
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1767Business and LaborMaine’s Duchess of Dix Island and The Rise and Fall of The Great Granite Ring
The story of the Duchess of Dix Island begins with a bad investment. In 1839 Horace Beals became a partner in the...
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13.4K4Arts and LeisureEdward Hopper in New England
Edward Hopper is known for his paintings of urban isolation, and yet he did some of his best loved work in rural...
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16.8K22Arts and LeisureMaine’s Great Clam Chowder War of 1939
A tomato-hating politician from Rockland set off the Maine clam chowder war of 1939 when he drafted a bill to criminalize clam...
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7.5K3MassachusettsEdna St. Vincent Millay Pleads for Sacco and Vanzetti
Edna St. Vincent Millay was outraged by the convictions in 1921 of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian immigrants from Boston’s North...
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16.6K12Business and LaborAbbie Burgess, Teenaged Heroine of Matinicus Rock Light
Abbie Burgess, at just 16, kept the light burning in Matinicus Rock Lighthouse for 21 days in 1856 during a violent storm....
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2.1KMaineHenry Ingraham, June 7, 1810: ‘Mr. Nath Crockit came after the crazey woman’
Henry Ingraham followed his father’s example when at age 13 he began to keep a diary. Between the two of them, they...
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11.0K15Business and LaborThe Maine Ship Captain Who Invented the Modern Donut
In 1847, a Maine ship captain invented the donut as we know it today – with a hole. On the day Lewis...
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May 9, 1814: Brother Charles the Privateer … Dronded
Charles Ingraham went off to sea as a privateer and it almost ruined him. It didn’t kill him, though. Something else did....
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Edna St. Vincent Millay Gives Thanks for a Basket of Flowers, May 4, 1918
Edna St. Vincent Millay was a 22-year-old Vassar student on May 4, 1918 when she wrote a letter thanking her friend Corinne...
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