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PublishedOctober 3, 2021
Hard cider bounces back in Maine, 150 years later
Mainers once guzzled gallons of hard cider year-round. Some hope they will again, as a growing number of producers add new twists to the once commonplace drink.
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PublishedSeptember 30, 2021
Celebrated Chinese American mom to be honored posthumously in Portland
A plaque will mark the site on Forest Avenue where Toy Len Goon, ‘an extraordinary woman,’ ran a laundry and raised eight children as a single widow in the mid-20th century.
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PublishedSeptember 12, 2021
Portland has changed and you can really smell the difference
A generation ago the city's signature smells included J.J. Nissen Bakery, Jordan's Meats and the soon-to-close B&M Baked Beans plant. Today the city's aroma includes whiffs of coffee roasting, food trucks, breweries and oil tanks.
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PublishedAugust 22, 2021
They were winter weary, fed up and suffering ‘Ohio Fever’: How fleeing Mainers founded Maineville, Ohio
The tiny town in southwest Ohio was among the places Mainers settled in the 1800's seeking a better life, and the town maintains a connection with Maine 200 years later.
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PublishedJune 29, 2021
Sure, it’s hot out, but at least it’s not like 1911
Lewiston and Auburn suffered through what may have been the worst summer weather New England ever faced for 11 steamy days in July 1911.
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PublishedApril 26, 2021
A hundred years ago, Lewiston elected women to office for the first time
In 1921, finally allowed to participate fully, women won four school board seats and controlled a majority of the panel.
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PublishedFebruary 24, 2021
Marble bust of powerful 19th century Mainer damaged by mob at U.S. Capitol last month
A curator is taking steps to repair the marble bust of former U.S. House Speaker Thomas Reed of Maine.
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PublishedFebruary 16, 2021
Maine Historical plans for future preservation of past
A new system will allow Maine Historical Society to expand the safe storage of its vast collection.
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PublishedJanuary 31, 2021
Togo: History’s most heroic dog spent his final years at Poland Spring
Famed for delivering life-saving medicine across the Alaskan wilderness in 1925, Togo, a lead sled dog, wound up in Maine. A statue to honor him at Poland Spring is in the works.
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PublishedJanuary 10, 2021
Winthrop Maine Historical Society seeks donors to help buy Main Street building
The historical society, which does not have an official headquarters, is seeking $125,000 to purchase and upgrade the old Key Bank location at 107 Main St.
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