One clear lesson from Maine’s political history is that it’s awfully hard to knock a 2nd District congressman out of office. Nobody’s done it, after all, since 1916. Since that September day more than a century ago when Democrat Daniel McGillicuddy of Lewiston went down to defeat, a dozen men and women who held the […]
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Lost Indian tribes topic for Canton Historical Society
CANTON — The Canton Historical Society will present “Lost Indian Tribes of Western Maine” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 25, at 25 Turner St. Peter Powell will show PowerPoint slides on the period from about 1600 to 1763, when the final treaty of the French and Indian Wars was signed. He will touch on about […]
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Johanna Caroline Moody
AUBURN — Johanna Caroline Halberts Moody, 85, of Poland passed away peacefully Tuesday, July 10, with her family by her side. Johanna was born in Portland on Jan. 25, 1933, to Frederick Halberts and Minette Elwell Halberts. Johanna graduated from Deering High School, and then went on to the University of New Hampshire, where she received […]
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Bigotry against immigrants is nothing new in Lewiston
“If anyone walks down Lisbon Street in Lewiston, he will certainly think that he is in … an alien land,” where foreigners speaking a strange language are everywhere, an observer claimed. There are “few real Americans” left in the city, another man griped. He also noted that “a few real Americans” in Lewiston “are working […]
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Historical society to show Poland Spring winter sports activities
POLAND — The Poland Historical Society will present a collection of historic images of winter sports activity at the historic Poland Spring Resort. The event will take place at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 28, in the Old School House Museum. Most Poland residents are aware that the Poland Spring property was a popular destination for […]
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James Myall addresses the Lewiston Rum War
LEWISTON — It’s often said that Maine leads the way in many cultural and political matters, and the subject of sale and consumption of liquor from the mid-1850s to about 1930 bears out the truth of that observation. An audience of nearly three dozen people heard an entertaining address on the subject Tuesday afternoon by […]
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DAR chapter to learn facts, fiction of Molly Ockett
AUBURN — Mary Dillingham-Burnt Meadow Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, will host Nancy LeCompte, Maine author and authority on Maine Indians, as they explore facts and fiction surrounding the Native American woman known as Molly Ockett. Ockett lived from 1740 to 1816 and served as a doctress and midwife to many of this region’s […]
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Dirigo students share Boston Tea Party knowledge
PERU — Fourth-grade students in Kristi Holmquist’s class at Dirigo Elementary School presented a Boston Tea Party readers’ theater to family and friends Thursday. Some students dressed as colonists or representatives of the British government to tell the story of colonists throwing chests of British tea into Boston Harbor on Dec. 16, 1773. Besides their performance […]
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Museum L-A selling products designed with mill workers' artwork
LEWISTON — Museum L-A is preserving Maine history with original millworkers’ artwork, and it all started with a dive into a dump truck. Museum Executive Director Rachel Desgrosseilliers said that in 2005 she spotted two big dump trucks on the loading dock. One had a bright red piece of fabric sticking out. “It caught my curiosity […]
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Looking Back on January 8
100 years ago, 1918Prior to the inaugural the old Lewiston city council transacted a little routine business — and died. Then, its members, as private citizens, remained to witness the incoming of their successors. This meeting of the old council, set for nine o’clock, opened somewhere about eleven. The members of both bodies dribbled in […]