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Maine’s state motto is “Dirigo,” Latin for I lead.
(Econ, 6/17/06, p.34)
1604
Jun 26, French explorer Samuel de Champlain, Pierre
Dugua and 77 others landed on the island of St. Croix and made friends
with the native Passamaquoddy Indians. It later be-came part of Maine
on the US-Canadian border.
(PacDis, Spring/'94, p. 43)(SSFC, 6/20/04, p.D10)
1605 Jun, Pierre Dugua moved the
French settlement at St. Croix, Maine, to Nova Scotia at a site named
Port Royal.
(SSFC, 6/27/04, p.A2)
1607 Aug 14, The Popham expedition
reached the Sagadahoc River in the northeastern North America (Maine),
and settled there.
(HN, 8/14/98)
1634 May 31, Massachusetts Bay
colony annexed the Maine colony.
(MC, 5/31/02)
1642 Mar 1, Georgeana (York),
Maine, became the first American city to incorporate.
(HN, 3/1/98)(SC, 3/1/02)
1646 James Morton, author of the
“New English Canaan,” died in Maine.
(ON, 3/00, p.12)
1677 Mar 13, Massachusetts gained
title to Maine for $6,000.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1691 Oct 17, Maine and Plymouth
were incorporated in Massachusetts.
(HN, 10/17/98)
1755 In Canada the Accadians of
Nova Scotia were uprooted by an English governor and forced to leave.
Some 10,000 people moved to destinations like Maine and Louisiana. The
Longfellow story "Evangeline" is based on this displacement.
(SFEC, 8/22/99, p.T8,9)
1775 Oct 16, Portland, Maine, was
burned by British.
(MC, 10/16/01)
1783 The so-called Aroostook War
stemmed from a boundary dispute that had loomed since 1783 between
Maine and New Brunswick and was not settled by the Peace of Ghent.
After Maine became a state in 1820, it disregarded British claims in
making land grants to settlers along the Aroostook River.
(HNQ, 9/30/99)
1783 Shakers settled at Sabbathday
Lake. The sect originated in England in the 1770s and was known as the
United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearance.
(SFC, 6/21/01, p.C2)
1785-1812 This period in the life of Martha Ballard,
herbalist and mid-wife, was covered by Ballard in her diaries and later
uncovered by historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and portrayed in a 1998
TV documentary for “The American Experience.”
(WSJ, 1/8/98, p.A7)
1807 Feb 27, Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow (d.1882), was born in Portland, Maine. He was an American
poet famous for "The Children's Hour," and "Evangeline." “What is time?
The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the
sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries—these
are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time
itself. Time is the Life of the soul.”
(AP, 10/11/97)(AP, 2/27/98)(HN, 2/27/99)
1811 The Bowdoin College Museum of
Art in Brunswick was begun as a bequest from James Bowdoin III, son of
a college benefactor.
(WSJ, 7/21/00, p.W2)
1812 Maine separated from the
state of Massachusetts.
(WSJ, 8/6/99, p.W12)
1820 Mar 3, The Missouri
Compromise was passed by Congress. It allowed Missouri to enter the
Union as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state. [see Mar 6]
(PCh, 1992, p.389)(SC, 3/3/02)
1820 Mar 15, Maine, a province of
Massachusetts since 1647, became the 23rd state. Maine entered the
Union as a free state and helped maintain the balance in the US Senate,
that would have been disrupted by the entrance of Missouri Territory
into the Union as a slave state.
(AP, 3/15/97)
1825 The Miramichi fires burned
some 3 million acres in Maine and New Brunswick, Canada.
(SFC, 10/30/03, p.A15)
1827 The U.S. and Great Britain
submitted the Maine and New Brunswick boundary dispute to arbitration
by the King of the Netherlands in 1827, whose compromise was accepted
by the British but rejected by the U.S.
(HNQ, 9/30/99)
1837 Nov 2, In Winslow, Maine, the
grave of Mr. Wood reads: In Memory of Beza Wood De-parted this life
Nov. 2, 1837 Aged 45 yrs. Here lies one Wood Enclosed in wood One Wood
Within another. The outer wood Is very good: We cannot praise The other.
(e-mail, Riddiough, 5/16/99)
1837 Dec 29, A threshing
machine powered by a single horse treadmill was patented in Win-throp,
Maine, by twins Hiram A. and John A. Pitts.
(DM, 8/5/03)
1837 The Edwards Dam on the
Kennebec River was constructed. It was broken open in 1999 to allow
fish upstream.
(SFC,11/26/97, p.A7)(SFC, 7/2/99, p.A3)
1838 Canadian lumberjacks entered
the disputed Maine and New Brunswick territory in 1838 and began
lumbering operations. The arrest by Canadians of a Maine-appointed
agent sent into the area to force out the Canadians marked the
beginning of the undeclared conflict called the Aroostook War, which
saw the Nova Scotia legislature make war appropriations and the U.S.
Congress authorize a force of 50,000 men and $10 million. General
Winfield Scott brokered a truce between Maine and New Brunswick which
averted a real war.
(HNQ, 9/30/99)
1839 Feb 12, Aroostook War took
place over a boundary dispute between Maine and New Brunswick. [see
1838]
(MC, 2/12/02)
1840 Feb 5, Hiram Stevens Maxim
(d.1916), inventor of the automatic single-barrel rifle, was born in
Sangerville, Maine. He invented the hair-curling iron, and patented
such items as a mousetrap, a locomotive headlight, a method of
manufacturing carbon filaments for lamps, and an automatic sprinkling
system.
(V.D.-H.K.p.267)(MC, 2/5/02)
1842 Aug 9, The United States and
Canada signed the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, resolving a border dispute
between Maine and Canada's New Brunswick.
(AP, 8/9/97)(HN, 8/9/98)(HNQ, 9/30/99)
1851 Jun 2, Maine became the first
state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol.
(AP, 6/2/97)
1861 Henry Morton founded the
Paris Manufacturing Co. in South Paris, Maine. The company made various
toys and then desks from the late 1800s. In 1978 it became Paricon Inc.
(SFC, 1/23/08, p.G5)
1863 Ellen White of Maine, founder
of the 7th Day Adventists, testified against tobacco, spiri-tuous
liquors, snuff, tea, coffee, flesh-meats, butter, spices, rich cakes,
mince pies, large amounts of salt and all exciting substances used as
articles of food.
(SFC, 9/29/00, p.W17)
1864 Henry David Thoreau authored
“The Maine Woods” (1864), based on 3 previous visits to Maine in 1846,
1853 and 1857.
(SSFC, 7/29/07,
p.G8)(http://thoreau.eserver.org/mewoods.html)
1866 Jul 4, Firecracker thrown in
wood started a fire that destroyed Portland, Me.
(Maggio, 98)
1875 Jun 2, James A. Healy, the
1st black Roman Catholic bishop in the US, was conse-crated in
Portland, Maine.
(www.portlanddiocese.net/info.php?info_id=132)
1876 Feb 17, Sardines were 1st
canned by Julius Wolff in Eastport, Maine.
(MC, 2/17/02)
1881 The Ocean Park learning
institution, an offshoot of the Chautauqua movement, was es-tablished
at Old Orchard Beach 15 miles south of Portland.
(SFEC, 5/30/99, p.T2)
1883 Winslow Homer, painter, moved
to the family compound at Prout’s Neck, Maine.
(WSJ, 9/13/01, p.A18)
1887 Mar 13, Chester Greenwood of
Maine patented earmuffs.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1887 In Maine the town of Grand
Lake Stream incorporated.
(SSFC, 8/6/06, p.G7)
1892 Feb 22, Edna St. Vincent
Millay, poet, writer, feminist, was born in Rockland, Maine.
(HN, 2/22/01)
1897 Mar 19, Cornelia Thurza
Crosby, aka "Flyrod Crosby", was issued the very first Maine guide's
license.
(www.maineguides.org/presmessage.html)
1899 Feb 27, Charles H. Best,
physiologist, co-discoverer of Insulin, was born in Maine.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1905 Jun 10, 1st forest fire
lookout tower placed in operation was at Greenville, Me.
(MC, 6/10/02)
1908 Jul 8, Nelson Aldrich
Rockefeller, businessman and philanthropist, was born in Bar Har-bor,
Maine. The liberal Republican served as governor of New York and then
as vice president of the United States under Pres. Gerald Ford
(1974-77).
(AP, 7/8/08)
1910 Mar 17, The Camp Fire Girls
organization was formed in Lake Sebago, Maine. It was formally
presented to the public exactly two years later.
(AP, 3/17/97)(HN, 3/17/01)
1911 Nov 6, Maine became a dry
state.
(HN, 11/6/98)
1913-1940 A 44-mile network of carriage roads was
constructed under John D. Rockefeller Jr. and later donated to Acadia
National Park.
(SFEC, 8/1/99, p.T10)
1916 Frederick J. Waugh, a noted
marine painter, authored "The Clan of Munes," a children's book about
troll-like figures set in the Cathedral Woods of Monhegan Island,
Maine. The book was later thought to have inspired a tradition of
building fairy houses in the Cathedral Woods.
(WSJ, 1/18/00, p.A1,8)
1919 Feb 26, Acadia National Park
was established as Lafayette National Park in Maine.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1921-1924 Percival Baxter (1876-1969) served as
governor of Maine.
(LP, Spring 2006, p.57)
1928 Dec 20, 1st international
dogsled mail left Minot, Maine, for Montreal.
(MC, 12/20/01)
1929 Jan 19, Acadia National Park,
Maine, was established.
(MC, 1/19/02)
1930 The film “From Stump to Ship”
was a documentary on logging in Maine. In 2002 it was added to the
National Film Registry.
(SFC, 12/19/02, p.E12)
1933 The state of Maine named the
area around Mt. Katahdin Baxter State Park, after former Gov. Percival
Baxter (1921-1924) who personally donated the land for permanent
preservation. Over 32 years Baxter donated 201,018 acres to the state.
(www.mpbc.org/homestom/timelines/bios/baxter.html)
1938 E.B. White, writer, moved to
Brooklin from New York. Brooklin was a center for the building of
wooden boats. In 1999 Douglas Whynott published "A Unit of Water, A
Unit of Time," his observations on boat building in Brooklin.
(SFEC, 5/23/99, BR p.8)
1940 Jun 3, In a special Maine
election Margaret Chase Smith was elected to serve out the unexpired
term of her late husband, Clyde Smith. At the next regular election,
held 3 months later, Smith was voted to a full term in the House. She
was elected to the Senate in 1948.
(http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=s000590)
1942 Nov 2, An amphibious aircraft
foundered in rough weather, in the waters surrounding what is now the
Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve in the eastern Gulf of Saint
Law-rence. The plane was based at Presqu'Ile, Maine, in the US, and
serviced an airfield in the vil-lage of Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan,
Quebec. Four of the crew escaped the flooding plane and were rescued by
local fishermen rowing out from shore in open boats in rough seas. Five
others perished, trapped inside. In 1941 and 1942, the US had
constructed a series of airfields in East-ern Canada to ferry aircraft
to Allied air forces in Northern Europe, as part of the so-called
"Crimson Route." Wreckage of the downed plane was found in 2009.
(AFP, 8/7/09)
1944 Nov 29, Mary Forni
(1915-2006) reported 2 unusual men on the side of a rural road near Bar
Harbor, Maine. They turned out to be Erich Gimpel, a German spy, and
William Colepaugh, an American defector, who had slipped ashore as
spies from a German U-boat. Both men were later captured, tried and
sentenced to death. Pres. Truman later pardoned them.
(SSFC, 12/24/06, p.D7)
1945-1980 Moose hunting during this period was banned
in Maine due to their scarce numbers.
(Econ, 9/30/06, p.41)
1947 Sep 21, Stephen King, author,
was born in Portland, Maine. He is best known for super-natural and
horror tales including Carrie (1974), Shining (1977) and Kujo (1981).
(HN, 9/21/00)(SSFC, 7/2/06, Par p.16)
1948 Sep 13, Republican Margaret
Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first
woman to serve in both houses of Congress.
(AP, 9/13/97)
1948 Andrew Wyeth painted
“Christina’s World” in Maine.
(WSJ, 6/16/00, p.W12)
1957 Dec 11, The movie "Peyton
Place," based on the novel by Grace Metalious, had its world premiere
in Camden, Maine, where most of it had been filmed.
(AP, 12/11/07)
1959 Beatrix Farrand (b.1872),
landscape architect, died in Bar Harbor, Maine.
(WSJ, 7/22/04, p.D10)
1962 Jul 11, The Telstar I
satellite carried the first transatlantic TV transmission. It picked up
broadcast signals from France and bounced them down to an antenna in
Maine, delivering the first live television picture from Europe to
America
(PGA, 12/9/98)(MC, 7/11/02)
1964 In Maine Richard Paine built
his Seal Cove Auto Museum.
(SFC, 9/13/07, p.E3)
1968 Aug 29, Maine Sen. Edmund
Muskie was chosen to be the Democratic nominee for vice president at
the party's convention in Chicago.
(AP, 8/29/08)
1969 In Maine the “Uncle Henry”
weekly advertising magazine began to be published.
(WSJ, 7/7/97, p.A1)
1969 The 62-foot-tall Skowhegan
Indian statue was built in Skowhegan, Maine.
(NW, 8/26/02, p.51)
1970 Tom and Kate Chappell began
producing a phosphate-free laundry detergent called Clearlake. Tom’s of
Maine expanded to produce a natural toothpaste and in 2006 sold an 84%
stake to Colgate-Palmolive for $100 million in cash.
(SFC, 3/22/06, p.C3)
1972 Jan 24, Maine Sen. Edmund
Muskie (1914-1996) won the Iowa caucus but later lost the Democratic
nomination to George McGovern.
(http://correntewire.com/post_iowa_perspective)
1975 Sep 18, Fairfield Porter
(b.1907), American artist, died. Much of his work was done along the
Maine coastline.
(WSJ, 9/4/03,
p.D8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfield_Porter)
1976 Sep 4, George W. Bush (30),
candidate for US president in 2000, was arrested and pleaded guilty to
driving under the influence of alcohol in Kennebunkport.
(SFC, 11/3/00, p.A1)
1982 Maine Indian tribes laid
claim to 60% of the state lands and settled for $81.5 million.
(SFC, 12/13/02, p.J7)
1983 Jul 7, Samantha Smith (11) of
Manchester, Maine, left for a visit to the Soviet Union at the personal
invitation of Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov.
(AP, 7/7/97)
1983 Jul 22, Samantha Smith (11)
and her parents returned home to Manchester, Maine, af-ter completing a
whirlwind tour of the Soviet Union.
(AP, 7/22/03)
1983 Oct 11, The last hand cranked
telephones in the US went out of service as 440 tele-phone customers in
Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct dial.
(www.privateline.com/TelephoneHistory5/History5.htm)
1985 Aug 25, Samantha Smith, the
schoolgirl whose letter to Yuri V. Andropov resulted in her famous
peace tour of the Soviet Union, was killed with her father in an
airplane crash in Maine.
(AP, 8/25/97)
1987 Nov 12, Heavy snow closed
schools from DC to Maine.
(http://weather.intellicast.com/Almanac/Northeast/November/)
1988 Jun 2, Horace A. Hildreth
(b.1901), former governor of Maine (1945-49), died.
(http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/higginson-hilger.html)
1988 Nov 29, US Senate Democrats
elected George Mitchell of Maine to be majority leader, the post
vacated by Robert Byrd of West Virginia.
(AP, 11/29/98)
1996 Jan 27, A man invaded a
convent in Waterville, Maine, stabbing and beating four nuns, killing
two of them with two others injured, including one left in a coma. Mark
Bechard was later found not criminally responsible because of mental
illness. Bechard, a mentally ill man who dreamed of becoming a Catholic
priest burst through the doors of the chapel of Servants of the Blessed
Sacrament, went on a rampage, stabbing and stomping elderly nuns.
(AP, 1/27/01)(AP, 1/26/06)
1996 Gov. King proclaimed Barbara
Cooney (1917-2000), artist and writer, a Living Treasure of the State
of Maine. Her 110 children's books included the trilogy "Rumphius,"
"Island Boy" and "Hattie and the Wild Waves." Her illustrations
included paintings for Donald Hall's "Ox-Cart Man."
(SFC, 3/16/00, p.A27)
1996 Maine passed a referendum
that required the state to pay for the campaign of each candidate who
forswears traditional fundraising. It became effective in 2000.
(Econ, 6/17/06,
p.34)(www.newrules.org/gov/cleanME.html)
1997 Feb 12, Philip Berrigan was
arrested at an anti-nuclear protest. He was one of 6 activ-ists later
convicted for vandalizing a Navy guided missile destroyer at the Bath
Iron Works.
(SFC,10/28/97, p.A10)
1997 Nov 25, The FERC (Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission) ordered the dismantling of the
160-year-old Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River. The commission refused
to reissue a license to Edwards Manufacturing Co. and ordered Edwards
to pay the estimated $6.4 million cost of removing its dam.
(SFC,11/26/97, p.A7)
1998 Jan 8-9, The US Northeast and
Canada were hit with a severe ice storm and at least 16 people were
reported killed. Millions of people were left without power in upper
New York, Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire.
(SFC, 1/9/98, p.A3)(SFC, 1/10/98, p.A8)
1998 Jan 23, A new storm hit and
knocked out power to some 12,000 people in Central Maine.
(SFC, 1/26/98, p.A7)
1998 Feb 10, Voters in Maine
repealed a gay rights law. Gov. Angus King called it unfortu-nate.
(SFC, 2/11/98, p.A2)
1998 May 26, Gov. King announced
that Edwards Manuf. would transfer ownership of its dam to Maine on Jan
1, 1999, and make a grant of $100,000 to Augusta for redevelopment
adjacent to the dam and others things. The agreement relieved Edwards
of liability for the removal of the dam. Removal was to be financed by
the Kennebec Hydro Developers Group.
(WSJ, 5/26/98, p.B9)
1998 Sep 4, In Yarmouth Harbor,
New Brunswick, the new Incat 046 catamaran collided with a fishing
dragger and killed Captain Clifford Hood (33). The new ferry carried up
to 900 pas-sengers and 240 cars from Bar Harbor, Maine, to Yarmouth
across the Bay of Fundy at 50 mph. Travel time was cut in half from 6.5
hours for the 105 mile run.
(SFEC, 10/5/98, p.A3,5)
1998 Oct 16, It was reported that
a growing number of lobsters in Maine were being found sick and dying
from undetermined causes.
(SFC, 10/17/98, p.C1)
1998 Dec 3, A scientific report
from the Multispecies Monitoring Committee said that the cod fishing in
the Gulf of Maine has collapsed due to overfishing.
(SFC, 12/4/98, p.A3)
1999 Mar 3, The New England
Forestry Foundation announced a conservation deal that banned
development on over 754,673 acres of prime Maine woods owned by the
Pingree fam-ily. Gov. Angus King said the $28 million agreement would
allow managed logging while pre-serving the wilderness character of the
forestland.
(SFC, 3/4/99, p.A3)(WSJ, 3/4/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 17, The US launched the
505-foot Navy destroyer Winston S. Churchill at the Bath Iron Works in
Maine.
(SFEC, 4/18/99, p.A2)
1999 Jul 1, The 162 year-old
Edwards Dam was broken open by government order to allow fish to move
upstream.
(SFC, 7/2/99, p.A3)
1999 Nov 2, Voters approved
legalizing marijuana for some medicinal purposes.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.A17)
2000 Mar 2, Gov. Angus King
announced that he would like to give every 7th grader in Maine (17,000
students) a laptop computer, regardless of whether they have a computer
at home.
(SFC, 3/3/00, p.A2)
2000 May 11, Gov. Angus King
signed a bill that made Maine the 1st state to threaten the
pharmaceutical industry with price controls.
(SFC, 5/12/00, p.A9)
2001 Mar 20, The Pingree family
closed a $28 million deal with the New England Forestry foundation to
give up development rights to 762,192 acres of Maine forest.
(SFC, 3/21/01, p.A7)
2001 Oct 27, Brian Robinson (40)
of San Jose became the 1st person to hike the 3 major Na-tional Scenic
Trails, 7,400 miles in 22 states, in a calendar year when he reached
the northern terminus of the 2,168 mile Appalachian Trail atop Maine’s
Mount Katahdin. He had already hiked the Pacific Crest Trail, 2,645
miles, and the Continental Divide Trail, 2,588 miles.
(SSFC, 10/28/01, p.A19)
2001 Richard Russo of Camden,
Maine, authored his novel “Empire Falls.” He won a Pulitzer prize for
the work in 2002.
(SFC, 6/28/02, p.D18)
2002 Jul, The new $ 1 billion Navy
destroyer McCampbell was completed at the Bath Iron Works. It was
commissioned in SF Aug 17.
(SSFC, 8/18/02, p.A2)
2002 Sep 12, In Maine 14 guest
workers from Honduras and Guatemala were drowned when their van fell
off a bridge into the Allagash Wilderness Waterway.
(SFC, 9/13/02, p.A3)
2003 Some 3,951 bears were killed
by hunters in Maine. 92% of them were bagged by the use of bait or dogs.
(WSJ, 10/28/04, p.A1)
2004 Feb 4, Maine Gov. John
Baldacci (49) broke a rib when his SUV went off I-295 near Portland.
(USAT, 2/4/04, p.3A)
2004 Feb 8, John Kerry won the
Maine caucasus.
(SFC, 2/9/04, p.A1)
2004 May 10, Gov. Baldacci of
Maine signed legislation increasing the minimum wage. The current $6.25
and hour rate would be increased 25 cents in each of two phases.
(USAT, 5/11/04, p.10A)
2005 Aug 24, A federal commission
voted against closing the New London submarine base in Groton, Conn.,
and the Portsmouth shipyard in Kittery, Maine.
(AP, 8/24/06)
2005 Nov 8, Maine voted to
preserve the state's new gay-rights law.
(AP, 11/9/05)
2006 Apr 6, Maine’s Gov. John
Baldacci signed legislation to allow stiffer penalties for those
convicted of attacks on homeless people.
(SFC, 4/7/06, p.A3)
2006 May 14, Maine's governor
declared a state of emergency in the southern most county, and the
governors of Massachusetts and New Hampshire also declared states of
emergency as a 3-day deluge turned streets into rivers across New
England, flooding homes up to their door knobs, forcing dozens of
schools to close because the buses couldn't get through, and
threatening dams and communities as rivers rise.
(AP, 5/15/06)
2006 Jun, Aliaksei Vasileuski
(20), a student from Belarus was stabbed to death in Maine.
(AP, 9/15/06)
2006 Sep 5, A cook was charged
with shooting and dismembering the owner of a Maine bed-and-breakfast
and three other people in a Labor Day weekend killing rampage.
Christian Niel-sen has since pleaded not guilty to murder by reason of
insanity.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2006 Oct 29, In the northeast US
thousands of homes and businesses had no electricity as a storm system
blasted the region with winds gusting to more than 50 mph, knocking
over trees and a construction crane. The storm was blamed for at least
two deaths.
(AP, 10/29/06)
2006 Maine’s population in this
year was about 1.3 million.
(Econ, 6/17/06, p.34)
2007 Jan 17, A US snow and ice
storm was blamed for at least 64 deaths in nine states. These included
20 deaths in Oklahoma, 9 in Missouri, 8 in Iowa, 4 in New York, 5 in
Texas, 4 in Michigan, 3 in Arkansas, and 1 each in Maine and Indiana.
(AP, 1/17/07)(SFC, 1/18/07, p.A3)
2007 Jan 26, The Maine Legislature
overwhelmingly passed a resolution objecting to the Real ID Act of
2005. The federal law sets a national standard for driver's licenses
and requires states to link their record-keeping systems to national
databases. Within a week of Maine's action, lawmakers in Georgia,
Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico, Vermont and Washington state also balked
at Real ID. Idaho approved a similar bill on March 8.
(AP, 2/4/07)(Econ, 3/24/07, p.36)
2007 Jul 1, Russian President
Vladimir Putin arrived in Kennebunkport, Maine, for an over-night visit
at the Bush family estate and talks with President Bush.
(AP, 7/2/07)
2007 Jul 23, In Maine a nonprofit
group unveiled the Thoreau-Wabanaki Trail. Thoreau had used Wabanaki
Indians as guides during visits to Maine, which led to his book “The
Maine Woods” (1864).
(SSFC, 7/29/07, p.G8)
2007 Dec 16, Dan Fogelberg (56),
the singer and songwriter, died at his home in Maine after battling
prostate cancer. His hits "Leader of the Band" and "Same Old Lang Syne"
helped de-fine the soft-rock era.
(AP, 12/17/07)
2008 Feb 10, Barack Obama added
the Maine Democratic presidential caucus to the three contests he swept
a day earlier against rival Hillary Rodham Clinton.
(AP, 2/11/08)
2008 Dec 13, In New Hampshire
370,000 customers still had no electricity following a huge ice storm.
Utility crews worked through a night of hand-numbing cold in the
Northeast but they still had a long way to go before restoring power to
all of the more than 1 million homes and businesses blacked out by the
storm. Most of the outages were in New Hampshire, Massachu-setts, Maine
and New York.
(AP, 12/13/08)
2008 Dec 27, In northern Nevada a
13 rail cars containing grain were involved in a derailment along the
Humboldt River. The derailment triggered the collapse ofa
102-year-old bridge span-ning the river.
(SSFC, 12/28/08, p.B2)
2009 Feb 23, In Vassalboro, Maine,
the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop began operations with a staff of 3
topless waitresses and one bare-chested waiter.
(www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/24/grand-view-topless-coffee_n_169670.html)
2009 Apr 17, In Maine Laureen
Rugen (50) was sentenced to 7 months in jail for stabbing her husband
(61) over 25 times. She had suffered physical, emotional and sexual
abuse over two decades and pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
(SFC, 4/18/09, p.A4)
2009 May 6, Maine's Gov. John
Baldacci signed a freshly passed bill approving gay marriage, making it
the fifth state to approve the practice and moving New England closer
to allowing it throughout the region.
(AP, 5/6/09)
2009 Nov 3, Voters in Maine
repealed a state law that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed.
Gay marriage has now lost in all 31 states in which it has been put to
a popular vote.
(AP, 11/4/09)
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