On this date in Maine history April 9: narrated by Amy Calder

On this date in Maine history: April 8, narrated by Kate Snyder

April 8, 1851: Neal Dow (1804-1897) is elected mayor of Portland. He quickly uses his influence in that position to lobby successfully for passage later that year of a state law generally banning the purchase and consumption of alcoholic beverages, earning Dow the nickname “the Napoleon of Temperance.” The law, which becomes known nationally as […]

On this date in Maine history: April 7, narrated by Colin Woodard

April 7, 2010: Maine’s Legislature issues a statement of apology for state officials’ forcible eviction a century earlier of a largely interracial group of residents from Malaga Island, in Casco Bay. The island lies off Phippsburg near the mouth of the New Meadows River. A racially mixed community of squatter fishermen’s families lived there. Newspaper […]

On this date in Maine history: April 6

On this date in Maine history: April 5

On this date in Maine history: April 4

On this date in Maine history: UMaine hockey wins first national title

On this date in Maine history: April 2

On this date in Maine history: April 1

April 1, 1968: Dow Air Force Base in Bangor officially closes. The city of Bangor obtains the airfield and reopens it the following year as Bangor International Airport. Bangor had allocated $75,000 for development of the base in 1940. The Maine Military Defense Commission funded the purchase of the base’s land. With construction of what […]

On this date in Maine history: Bates grad resigns as chief engineer of Panama Canal