Maranacook Community Middle School teacher Dan Holman has tried for years to make ice harvesting happen for his students and has never seen a public school have an opportunity like the students did on Wednesday.
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Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, Local & State
Lewiston’s best restaurant refused to serve Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘spiritual mentor’
Fearing a racist response from other diners in 1945, the DeWitt Hotel refused to allow Benjamin Mays, a prominent Bates College graduate who had come to speak in the city, to eat in its public dining room.
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Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: USM center will build on historian’s legacy by strengthening labor education
L.D. 1816 would create the Dr. Charles A. Scontras Labor Center in honor of a man who grew up in Old Orchard and began his working life in a shoe shop.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State
Restoration of Starling Hall in Fayette has come a long way, but has much farther to go
Starling Hall was built in 1879 and is the state’s first Grange Hall. Efforts to revive the building have been limited by funding, and the group seeks $600,000 to finish the job.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State
The only elephant in America in 1816 once frolicked in the Androscoggin River
Old Bet appears to have toured the eastern U.S. and may have lived to a riper old age if it wasn’t for fateful visit to Alfred, Maine.
Posted inGreg Kesich, Op-Eds, Opinion
The View From Here: Native history is American history
The new film ‘Bounty’ places a genocidal policy against the Penobscot Nation in the context of Revolutionary New England.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: Tribes still fighting for their rights in Maine
A proposed state law would undo some of the damage that has been done to Native people by colonization.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State
The life and legend of Worumbo, a Native American in colonial Maine
His name and image have long been associated with Lisbon, but except for some tall tales and a few hints, much of the man’s actual life is a mystery and will likely remain that way.
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Hard cider bounces back in Maine, 150 years later
Mainers once guzzled gallons of hard cider year-round. Some hope they will again, as a growing number of producers add new twists to the once commonplace drink.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Celebrated Chinese American mom to be honored posthumously in Portland
A plaque will mark the site on Forest Avenue where Toy Len Goon, ‘an extraordinary woman,’ ran a laundry and raised eight children as a single widow in the mid-20th century.