The 1922 slaying of Maine guide Otis Bean near Rangeley marked the first time a Franklin County woman ever faced a murder charge.
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During his 1972 presidential race, Maine’s Edmund Muskie faced at least three death threats
FBI records released to the Sun Journal on Friday show details of several investigations into claims the Democratic senator would be shot or bombed.
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A century after Prohibition, some Maine towns are still dry
Three dozen small Maine towns — home to more than 12,000 — have maintained bans on booze, beer and wine sales long after Prohibition’s national repeal.
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The strange tale of a Maine balloonist who vanished in 1885
Wealthy Frederick Gower disappeared after his balloon wound up in the English Channel and put an end to his plan to develop a way to drop dynamite on London or Paris in future wars with the help of wind-borne bombing.
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Maine: It happened here first
The state’s do-it-yourself spirit has led to many innovations over the years, from earmuffs to doughnut holes and maybe even a universal snub.
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George Popham, Ronald Reagan and Maine’s role in America’s first Thanksgiving
Just before the last ship returned to England in the fall of 1607, leaving the Popham colonists to face a brutal Maine winter, the colonists reached out to a nearby friendly Indian named Nahaniida.
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Holman Day was a newsman, novelist, poet
Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in the Lewiston Journal Magazine on Jan. 18, 1969. Every day the normal flow of traffic swishes by the Victorian-style house that stands on the corner of Goff and Court streets, and the drivers seldom take a second look at it. But each year, when the magnolia tree beside […]