Plans to add a pool were revived in the 1960s, but vandalism and other issues about 2 decades later led to a revamp of the area.
Maine History
Posted inFood, Local & State, News
Without a split-top bun, do you really have a Maine lobster roll?
Split-top buns, thought to have originated in Maine for Howard Johnson’s clam strip rolls, turn out to be the perfect vehicle for lobster rolls.
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Posted inLocal & State, News
‘Antiques Roadshow’ finally makes it to Maine
About 65 appraisers were at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay to assess items for the popular PBS show’s 30th season — and its first visit to the state.
Posted inbPlus, Lewiston-Auburn
How an Auburn man started a pro-North newspaper in London during the Civil War
John Adams Knight, whose house sits in Auburn’s West Pitch Park, acknowledged that once he backed the North, it was a trying time.
Posted inbPlus, Local & State, New England
The life-threatening encounter with ‘the biggest lobster of them all’
The Lewiston Evening Journal detailed in 1895 a battle between fishermen and an ‘enraged’ supersize lobster.
Posted inbPlus, Local & State
A huge lobster fought a Mainer in 1902 and almost won . . . so the story goes
Fisherman Charles McVane said a ‘monster lobster’ attacked him as he lay on a beach and he had to fight for his life.
Posted inbPlus, Local & State
‘Misery for dinner’ and other facts that lifted my Franco pride
Camden Martin’s local class on the history of French Canadians in Maine is full of interesting information … and answers to why I’m here.
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Local & State, News, Oxford Hills
New roof for historic Pigeon Hill Schoolhouse completed
Generations of Oxford students attended the Pigeon Hill School between 1867-1940. For the last two years Oxford Historical Society has been working to relocate the schoolhouse from the corner of Rabbit Valley Road and Route 24 to a lot and bird sanctuary off King Street. It is being completely rehabilitated as a living history museum in phases.
Posted inFood
Repast is history: What Mainers ate on Thanksgiving through the decades
We pored over Maine’s newspaper archives for a casual look at how Mainers from other times celebrated the holiday, and most especially what they were eating.
Posted inFranklin, Livermore Falls Advertiser
The origin of Livermore and Livermore Falls: a brief history
Who was Deacon Elijah Livermore and how did he found the town of Livermore?