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PublishedFebruary 18, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Feb. 18
Feb. 18, 1795: Lewiston is incorporated as a town. It becomes a city on March 15, 1861. Today it is Maine’s second-largest city, as it has been since the 1880 Census. Feb. 18, 1978: In an event broadcast live on local television, President Jimmy Carter participates in an evening question-and-answer session with about 2,200 people […]
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PublishedFebruary 17, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Feb. 17
Feb. 17, 1927: “The King’s Henchmen,” an American opera written by Deems Taylor and Rockland native, poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), opens successfully at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and becomes popular in book form as well. Feb. 17, 1952: A 36-hour blizzard powered by high wind begins to envelop […]
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PublishedFebruary 16, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Feb. 16
Feb. 16, 1804: In a maneuver masterminded by Navy Commodore Edward Preble (1761-1807) of Portland, a group of sailors stage a surprise attack and set fire to the frigate USS Philadelphia, which had run aground the previous year off Tripoli and had been captured by Barbary pirates. President Thomas Jefferson put Preble in charge of […]
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PublishedFebruary 15, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Feb. 15
Feb. 15, 1898: The armored battleship USS Maine explodes in the harbor at Havana, Cuba, killing 266 of its 354 crew members and accelerating the decline in U.S. relations with Cuba’s parent nation, Spain. The U.S. goes to war against Spain later that year. The ship, commissioned in 1895, was the first U.S. Navy vessel named […]
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PublishedFebruary 14, 2020
Happy Valentine’s Day. Love, Phantom
Portland’s mysterious emissary of love and his or her covert network of cupids decorate the downtown with hearts, continuing a tradition that began 44 years ago.
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PublishedFebruary 14, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Feb. 14
Feb. 14, 2008: Bath Iron Works wins a $1.4 billion contract to build the first ship in the U.S. Navy’s newest class of guided-missile destroyers. The Zumwalt, or DDG 1000, is expected to be delivered in 2014. The contract is expected to help BIW avoid layoffs when construction of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers is complete. The […]
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PublishedFebruary 13, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Feb. 20
Feb. 20, 1797: The Massachusetts legislature votes to partition the Maine town of Hallowell, with the northern part being incorporated as the town of Harrington, named after an English nobleman. Immediate dissatisfaction among residents prompts the selectmen to petition the Boston authorities for a name change. The legislature bows to the people’s wishes, and on […]
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PublishedFebruary 13, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Feb. 13
Feb. 13, 2019: The town of Skowhegan and the Main Street Skowhegan organization receive confirmation from Guinness World Records that their community set the world record for moose calling on June 9, 2018. On that date, registered Maine guide Robert Lambert led 1,054 people in a thunderous moose call that lasted 30 seconds during the Skowhegan […]
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PublishedFebruary 12, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Feb. 12
Feb. 12, 1959: A group of builders from New York gives the city of Bangor a 31-foot-tall Paul Bunyan statue in commemoration of the city’s 125th anniversary of incorporation. The statue is placed in Bass Park on Main Street. Feb. 12, 1834, also is supposed to be the fictional Bunyan’s birth date. The city clerk’s […]
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PublishedFebruary 11, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Feb. 11
Feb. 11, 1904: The Henry B. Hyde, the largest ship built in Maine at the time, runs aground in a gale off Cape Henry, Virginia. The 268-foot, fully rigged, three-masted sailing vessel is recovered, but sinks permanently nearly eight months later. Workers trying to salvage the vessel after the initial shipwreck manage to get it […]
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