The tough partisan warrior who also valued compromise with his adversaries showed patriotic values that are missing from today’s politics.
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Posted inBooks, Food & Dining, Maine Gardener
Maine Gardener: In ‘Plants Go to War,’ readers can observe history through an unusual lens
Ethnobotanist Judith Sumner has written a surprising, plants’-eye view of World War II, chock full of fascinating facts.
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Kennebunkport’s ‘Renaissance man’ honored at age 105
Frank Handlen has been a prolific artist, shipwright, sculptor and rock of the community for decades.
Posted inFood & Dining
Baked beans and brown bread – a New England tradition
A Maine food historian explains the origin of Saturday night baked bean dinners.
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History lesson: A Maine native’s play about a witness to the Holocaust is poised to embark on national tour
‘Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski’ was co-written by Deering High School graduate Clark Young and stars acclaimed actor David Strathairn.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Honor the U.S. Constitution by amending it
The most cherished constitutional rights came by way of amendment, something we have not been able to do for 50 years.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Coronavirus pandemic edges toward grim milestone
For more than a century, the influenza pandemic of 1918-19 was the deadliest in our history, a record that will soon be broken by COVID.
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Bates College professor among featured guests for ‘Stories from the Stage’ season premiere
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Insight: America’s reckoning with Indian boarding schools
When coming to terms with the history of a destructive policy, the nation needs to be guided by accountability, not pity.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State
Deeds and research lead to discovery of lost historic Augusta cemetery
An abandoned city-owned cemetery found in the woods between Riverside Drive and the Kennebec River in Augusta contains graves of Civil and Revolutionary war soldiers.