In April 1775, at the outbreak of the American Revolution, the British Army arrogantly considered the colonial militiamen nothing more than “a rabble in arms,” timid farmers who would run away at the first sight of redcoat bayonets. The British even concluded their mauling at Lexington and Concord was a fluke, but two months later in Boston, the Battle of Bunker Hill proved them wrong — the Americans not only could fight, they could fight well.
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TRAVELIN’ MAINE(RS): Head to New Gloucester and have yourself a Merry Shaker Christmas
Q: What do people from Georgia, Rhode Island, Iowa, Colorado, Wisconsin, California, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New Jersey know that you don’t?
A: They know that Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester is an amazing place. There were people at Shaker Village from each of those states, as well as England, on the October morning we visited.
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BOB HUMPHREY: Scents important too
In order to beat the whitetail deer you’ve got to have an edge. They’re out there, in the woods 24/7. They are intimately familiar with their surroundings and well equipped for survival with their keen eyes, ears and noses. And it’s that nose, more than anything, that will signal your presence more often than not. Fortunately, there are ways to counter that factor.
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KEN ALLEN: Black-powder shooting captures his soul
In the early 1980s, my mother and I bought my father a Thompson Center Hawken .50 caliber for Christmas, a percussion-cap muzzle-loader that looked like Robert Redford’s rifle in the 1972 movie, Jeremiah Johnson.
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OUTDOORS: A hunt like no other
ALBION — It was the opportunity every hunter wants. Late in the afternoon Nov. 12, a buck wandered onto an open field in Albion and paused below a nearby hunting blind.
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Construction begins on new Maine transmission line
Central Maine Power has begun construction on a new 39-mile, $33 million transmission line, which customers will partly pay for.
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Eight Maine colleges recognized for tobacco policies
The schools were graded on criteria such as campus tobacco policies, the availability of tobacco-cessation information, bans on tobacco distribution and divestment of tobacco investments.
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Deer-hunting season ends today
The firearms season officially ends half-an-hour before sunset today. The state issued 26,390 hunting permits this year.
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NBA owners, players reach tentative deal
The sides reached an agreement Saturday to end the 149-day lockout and hope to begin the delayed season Christmas day.
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SAM a personal mission for Trahan
AUGUSTA — For 18 years one man became the face of Maine’s biggest sportsmen’s organizations. And that face was ever-present in the State House. Now the face of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine, if new executive director David Trahan has his way, will be of children outside ice shacks, hunting in the woods and casting at youth-only ponds.