From the last refuge of an aging religious sect, to the childhood home of a great American author, to a museum dedicated to the ‘Yankee Da Vinci,’ the Lakes Region has so much hidden history.
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Pure ambition made this boy into a prominent man in the 19th-century Midcoast | Column
John Campbell Humphreys took his first job at 14 and thus began a steady flow of accomplishments, including becoming a fireman, owning his own store and other businesses, military and political careers, and more.
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In 1927, Brunswick man’s rampage ended in Topsham shootout | Column
Raymond Petit attacked 4 people, including his parents, while trying to elude police.
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West Bath’s New Meadows Inn was the place to eat in early 1900s | Column
The New Meadows River was a center of marine navigation with a growing summer tourist trade and the trolley line to Bath passed right in front of the inn.
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A tragic accident 93 years ago took lives and limbs of Topsham schoolchildren | Column
To avoid collision with the trolley, a truck driver swerved on an icy road, hitting a shanty filled with students.
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Freeport revisits its historic role in the slave trade
Kathleen Sullivan shares the discovery of her former home’s connections to the slave trade and the pitfalls of a romanticized past.
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Brunswick legend was ‘one of the most prominent and best loved citizens’ | Column
Throughout his life, William Brice Edwards served as police chief, fire chief, state detective, deputy sheriff, town selectman and more.
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Portland walking tour highlights Black history in Maine
The Saturday tour explored sites important not only to the development of Portland as a city, but also to Black history in the state.
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Midcoasters spent 41 years riding the trolleys | Column
Transportation innovations brought great changes to the Brunswick area at the end of the 19th century.
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What a Brunswick family’s cemetery reveals about Maine’s Black history
The namesake of a new park, the Heuston family was part of a thriving free Black community that helped others flee slavery.