MEXICO — Mountain Valley Middle School students showcased their projects on the Civil War, physics and career exploration Wednesday afternoon. Quest is a “theme-based, hands-on learning approach” to help improve attendance and get students more excited about learning, math and social studies teacher Craig Milledge said. “Each trimester, we’re having a group of students research […]
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Bethel Library to host Civil War book discussion Jan. 7
BETHEL — The Bethel Library is hosting a book discussion at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 7, as part of the “Local and Legendary: Maine in the Civil War” project lead by the library, Gould Academy and the Bethel Historical Society. The project began after the town of Bethel received a $2,000 grant from the Maine […]
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Austin Bay: Sherman’s March to the Sea: Total impact warfare
One hundred fifty years ago this month, General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Union “Army of the West” marched from Atlanta, Georgia, to the seaport of Savannah. En route, Sherman’s forces intentionally devastated a 60-mile wide swath of countryside. According to contemporaneous Confederate accounts, Sherman’s March to the Sea was a hideous form of “total war.” Yankee […]
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Bethel Historical Society to host final 2014 programs at beginning of December
BETHEL — The Bethel Historical Society is hosting its final two events of the year in December, starting with the organization’s annual Stanley Russell Howe lecture at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4 in the Bingham Hall auditorium on the Gould Academy campus. Randall Bennett, the executive director of the Bethel Historical Society, said that the lecture […]
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Lisbon Historical Society talk highlights local musicians
LISBON FALLS — On Wednesday evening, Sept. 10, Merton Ricker of the Lisbon Historical Society will present “Music, Music, Music,” a talk about musicians and musical groups from the local area. Ricker’s research has found that several young drummers and fife players from here were recruited for service as musicians in the Civil War. There […]
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Bethel Historical Society to host illustrated lecture on Civil War quilts
BETHEL — The Bethel Historical Society has scheduled an illustrated lecture from a New Hampshire museum curator about Civil War soldiers’ quilts at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 26 at the Moses Mason House. Executive Director Randall Bennett said that the lecture will connect with the Historical Society’s ongoing exhibit “In the Field and on the […]
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Civil War general from Leeds subject of museum program
AUGUSTA (AP) — The Maine State Museum in Augusta is hosting a program about Civil War general and Leeds, Maine, native Oliver Otis Howard. Author Gordon Weil will speak at the event. He wrote “The Good Man: The Civil War’s ‘Christian General’ and His Fight for Racial Equality” about Howard in 2013. Howard led the […]
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Civil War re-enactors commemorate UMF’s 150th
FARMINGTON — Double history major Michelle Henaire was in her element Saturday as she participated in a Civil War encampment by re-enactors with the local 15th Alabama Co. G at the University of Maine at Farmington. The UMF sophomore from Saco, who wore a Civil War-era hoop skirt, dress and blouse ensemble, watched raptly while […]
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Baseball memorabilia from 1862 at auction in Biddeford
PORTLAND (AP) — An auction house that sold a 148-year-old baseball card is now selling even older baseball memorabilia that features a Union team decimated by a Civil War battle. Saco River Auction Co. in Biddeford has a scorecard, four tickets and three concession passes from an 1862 game featuring the Washington Nationals and 71st […]
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Civil War hero’s Brunswick home damaged by water
“Water was pouring from the ceiling,” Benet Pols said of the parlor of the Potter Street building, the former residence of the Civil War hero and 19th-century Maine governor. “It was a terrible scene. There was water gushing through the ceiling.” Pols said the painted ceiling has since collapsed. Pols said he responded to a […]