As I was completing my college degree, my mentor was preparing for retirement. Coincidentally, we were both returning to Maine to turn to these new chapters in our lives. While I sought to identify myself through a career, she was beginning to re-identify herself without one. A professional sociologist by training, my mentor, Jean Potuchek, […]

In the old section of Calvary Cemetery, between Main Street and Calvary Creek, is a small bronze marker that indicates the burial location of John Anglin. The marker was put in by the American Legion and no other marker or stone is evident. John Edward Anglin was born on Oct. 6, 1850, in Portland, Maine. […]

After Hours Concert planned for March 14 South Portland Public Library will host the Hadacol Bouncers for its After Hours Concert on Saturday, March 14. The concert is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Main Library, 482 Broadway in South Portland. Hadacol Bouncers will play New Orleans and Chicago style blues and jazz. The doors […]

Cumberland Bone Co., occupied a large facility in the Ligonia section of (then) Cape Elizabeth from 1870 until 1874. The company, which sometimes went by the name of Portland Phosphate Works, was a manufacturer of superphosphate of lime, a fertilizer that was marketed to the farming community. According to an 1871 news article, the recipe […]