Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Bones and Stones--Bartlett Adams, Portland Stone Cutter

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Portland researcher and lecturer Ron Romano has catalogued more than 1,700 gravestones in the region carved by stone cutter Bartlett Adams ...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Crescent Lake Was Once Called Rattlesnake Pond

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In the summer of 1925, summer cottage owners on Rattlesnake Pond in Casco changed the name of that body of water to Crescent Lake because th...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Eulogy for Mr. and Mrs. Tarbox, Frozen to Death in 1819

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Chapter 21 of Hidden History of the Sebago Lakes Region relates the story of theTarbox couple who froze to death in a blizzard on Standish...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

The Death of Molly Ockett

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When Molly Ockett became ill at the end of her life, a contract was made between the town of Andover and resident Capt. Thomas Bragg for Mo...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Molly Ockett and Hannibal Hamlin

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An excellent resource on Molly Ockett is the booklet “Molly Ockett” by Catherine S-C. Newell with illustrations by Sue Wight published by t...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

The Legend of Molly Ockett

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Molly Ockett’s name appears on buildings and monuments throughout western Maine and New Hampshire. The Abenaki healer, who was born sometim...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

The Shadow Knows

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Are you old enough to remember the popular radio series The Shadow ? The Shadow character was created by Walter Gibson, using the pen name...