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History

Moose Drawing

Forty Years Ago, Some Mainers Called Bull on the Moose Hunt

Today, both the hunt and lottery are widely embraced traditions.

In Search of the Old Home Place

For a rootless descendant of some of Maine’s earliest settlers, solace is a quiet shore on a secluded tidal bay.
Percival Baxter, fellow legislators, the state’s chief warden and fish-and-game commissioner exploring what would become Baxter State Park

The 100-Year-Old Hiking Trip that Changed Maine Forever

Before he was Maine's greatest benefactor, Percival Baxter was just another nature-loving politico huffing and puffing up Katahdin.
Maine Camp

What Mainers Talk About When They Talk About “Going Up To Camp”

On the anatomy of a phrase and the history baked into it.
Elizabeth Arden Belgrade Lakes destination spa Maine Chance

How Elizabeth Arden Lured Urban One-Percenters to the Maine Woods

The cosmetics maven came to the Belgrade Lakes and invented the destination spa.
Charles Norman Shay today

The Life and Times of Charles Norman Shay

Seventy-five years after the end of World War II, a decorated Army medic and Penobscot elder is keeping his history alive.
Margaret Chase Smith at the 1972 Republican National ConventionMargaret Chase Smith in 1970

The Moment That Presaged a Maine Senator’s Downfall

Margaret Chase Smith was a bipartisan hero — until suddenly she wasn't.
E. B. White and Edmund Ware Smith

Uncovering the Letters of E.B. White and Edmund Ware Smith

A new collection of E. B. White letters helps shed light on another classic Maine writer.
A shipyard owner built this Italianate house in 1854.The Italianate Customs House, completed in 1858, sits at 1 Front Street.

Bath’s Living History

How the City of Ships preserved so many of its historic treasures.
April 1970

Growing Up in a Barn

A story from our April 1970 issue, by Esther E. Wood
Living the Good Life Gets A New Life

The Book That Birthed the Back-to-the-Land Movement

How Scott and Helen Nearing's Living the Good Life shaped a generation.
Hecklers Yelled Ethnic Slurs, But the 1944 Waterville Panthers Became Champs

Hecklers Yelled Ethnic Slurs, But the 1944 Waterville Panthers Became Champs

How a basketball team made up of the children of immigrants stunned sports fans.
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