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PublishedDecember 9, 2023
If there’s a rock ‘n’ roll heaven, it might just be Lewiston
At least 23 inductees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame have performed in Lewiston.
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PublishedNovember 26, 2023
Virtual reality is nothing new: Stereographs once offered widespread 3D images
Dual image photographs were a big hit in Maine for three-quarters of a century before film became common. 'The mind feels its way into the very depths of the picture.'
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PublishedSeptember 30, 2023
Martha Ballard admirers seek to deliver monument to midwife in Augusta
Memorial at Mill Park in Augusta would pay tribute to pioneer who delivered more than 800 babies in what is now central Maine.
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PublishedSeptember 17, 2023
First African to graduate from Bates became a missionary in his homeland
Lewis Penick Clinton, who fled his rural homeland as a teen, learned 12 languages and wowed his peers at the Lewiston college.
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PublishedAugust 20, 2023
The truth behind a legendary Mainer
They say Conrad Heyer crossed the Delaware with Washington, fought at Bunker Hill and is the earliest-born person to appear in a photograph, but . . .
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PublishedAugust 18, 2023
Lewiston man’s Civil War letters ‘a witness to some of our nation’s most important moments of history’
George Nye may be the only soldier who rose from private to general.
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PublishedAugust 14, 2023
Wildfires remain a long-term threat to almost two-thirds of the properties in Maine
Maine has a history of major wildfires that have over the years left towns in ruins.
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PublishedAugust 13, 2023
Unfurling the facts in the 1901 Maine state flag debate
History, politics and design sensibilities collide as residents of the Pine Tree State consider which banner to embrace.
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PublishedJuly 23, 2023
A doctor from Auburn died at Custer’s side at Little Big Horn
George Edwin Lord, educated in Auburn, became an Army surgeon after the Civil War and met a grisly fate.
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PublishedJuly 23, 2023
Excerpts from George Lord’s letters to Annie Hooper in 1874
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