maine history
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PublishedSeptember 29, 2019
Maine Voices: Our state should lead the way on opening up primaries to all voters
The current system gives presidential nominating power to the parties and takes it away from the people.
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PublishedSeptember 24, 2019
Maine Voices: Portland’s city manager system stymies democratic, pro-worker policies
Reformers should focus on reducing the power of or eliminating the position and overhauling the City Council as well.
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PublishedSeptember 23, 2019
Elizabeth Warren’s campaign puts Maine’s Frances Perkins at center stage
The Mainer who helped create the New Deal has become a staple of Democrat Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign speeches.
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PublishedSeptember 3, 2019
Maine Voices: It’s time to decide what kind of park we want Fort Gorges to be
Rather than commercializing it, let's preserve the fortification's unique beauty and the island's raw and rugged character.
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PublishedAugust 29, 2019
Roadside dig in Windham revealing secrets of the 18th century, inch by inch
The Maine Historic Preservation Commission's archaeological dig along River Road is helping to solve mysteries of a fort that was built in the 1740s.
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PublishedAugust 29, 2019
Our View: Windham road project opens window to the past
Harsh realities of the 1740s were revealed when the pavement on River Road was peeled back this summer.
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PublishedAugust 25, 2019
A largely forgotten Maine reformer and journalist is brought to life
Anarchist and Quaker Jeremiah Hacker published a radical newspaper in Portland during the 19th century. Mainer Rebecca Pritchard chronicles his life and thinking.
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PublishedAugust 21, 2019
A century after Prohibition, some Maine towns are still dry
Three dozen small Maine towns — home to more than 12,000 — have maintained bans on booze, beer and wine sales long after Prohibition's national repeal.
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PublishedAugust 15, 2019
The strange tale of a Maine balloonist who vanished in 1885
Wealthy Frederick Gower disappeared after his balloon wound up in the English Channel and put an end to his plan to develop a way to drop dynamite on London or Paris in future wars with the help of wind-borne bombing.
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PublishedAugust 11, 2019
Maine Observer: Cape Cottage post office is gone, but the memories aren’t
In the 1940s, everything that kids loved or needed was right in their own neighborhood.
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