The state’s laws regarding capital punishment for various crimes have changed repeatedly throughout Maine’s history.
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Did temperatures in Maine reach 105 degrees during the summer of 1911? | Fact brief
That summer, an 11-day heat wave killed hundreds, if not thousands, of New Englanders.
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Was Maine once a French Canadian territory? | Fact brief
French Canadian migration in the 19th and early 20th centuries helped to create lasting francophone communities across Maine.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine
Lewiston-Auburn’s historic bells still ring. Here’s where you hear them
Buildings throughout the Twin Cities contain bells from the 19th century, many still tolling the time and calling people to gather.
Posted inMaine, News
Maine postcards offer glimpse into history behind some of Vacationland’s most iconic spots
Postcards revolutionized casual conversation in the late 1800s. Decades later, as antique store bargain finds, they can give us a unique window into days gone by in Maine.
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Did Portland’s Eastern Promenade previously have a swimming pool? | Fact brief
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.
Posted inFood, Maine, 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.
Posted inMaine, 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, Maine, 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.