Speakers at a Blaine House tea said every Maine community could use a midwife like historical figure Martha Ballard.
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Maine filmmakers explore 1970s disco backlash
Lisa Quijano Wolfinger and Rushmore DeNooyer, of Lone Wolf Media in South Portland, made the new documentary “The War on Disco,” airing Monday on PBS.
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A stirring guide to the great Dutch painters
In ‘The Upside-Down World,’ Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser combines biography, art criticism and touches of memoir.
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Renovations to Maine State Museum chug along with removal of historic steam engine
When the Augusta museum reopens, likely in 2025, it is expected to feature interactive exhibits that boost focus on women and minority groups — and two humpback whale skeletons.
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Historian Randall Bennett to give presentation on Hastings Homestead
A presentation by Randall H. Bennett, “The Hastings Homestead Museum: Five Generations in the Making,” will be given at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 3, at the Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library in Lovell. In a PowerPoint presentation, Bennett will talk about the Homestead, which is in Bethel’s “Broad Street Historic District” and has been continuously […]
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Otisfield students produce living history reenactment
Otisfield Elementary School teacher Pamela Marshall’s fifth-grade class recently brought American history alive with a reenactment of the Continental Army’s experience at Valley Forge during the American Revolution.
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Preservationists tour Bethel
BETHEL — On November 15th, Executive Director Tara Kelly, Preservation Manager Brad Miller and Jonathan Hall, field services manager at Maine Preservation in Yarmouth, met Will Chapman, Bethel Historical Society executive director for a tour around downtown Bethel and the Broad Street historic district. The Maine Preservation staff spent the day in Bethel visiting with […]
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Ceremony held to recognize two Jay men who participated in the Boston Tea Party
Commemorative markers were placed on the gravesites of Jonathan Parker and James Starr.
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Oxford’s schoolhouse makes Most Endangered Historic Places list
The 1857 building on Pigeon Hill closed in 1940.