There are photos that present the buoyancy of that day, but this one captured something else.
History
In 186, a group of sensible Down East farmers and their families packed their houses and sailed to the Holy Land to await the Second Coming. Within a year, it had all gone wrong.
These days we might worry about winters growing too warm, but in 1816, Mainers faced the opposite problem: a frigid summer.
One writer’s earliest childhood memory: fleeing the blaze that forever changed Bar Harbor.
In 1883, an enterprising local named Francis H. Clergue built a narrow-gauge cog railway to the top of Cadillac Mountain — then called Green Mountain.
It took a starry-eyed aristocrat to transform exclusive MDI into a shared national treasure.
The treehouse is long gone, however, a 164-acre preserve being created by the Kennebec Land Trust promises to revive Howard Hill as an urban wilderness retreat.
How the Saco-Biddeford cotton empire gave rise to a trashy 19th-century literary craze full of torrid affairs, horrendous murders, and ruined females.
Bob Russo of the Portland Boxing Club knows what really happened during the famous Ali-Liston fight in Lewiston in 1965.
In 1984, cocaine trafficking in Maine was considered an urban problem. But in the sticks of the midcoast, a loose cartel of freewheeling, twenty-something drug dealers was building an empire — until one of the state’s most elaborate and far-reaching undercover operations brought it all crashing down.
During World War II, thousands of German prisoners of war were held in internment camps across Maine. In the winter of 1945, three of them got away.
Three teens embark on a great adventure aboard the schooner Bowdoin.