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Published
November 15, 2024

Stories from Maine: A flood to remember
Published
November 14, 2024

Repast is history: What Mainers ate on Thanksgiving through the decades

We pored over Maine's newspaper archives for a casual look at how Mainers from other times celebrated the holiday, and most especially what they were eating.
Published
November 14, 2024

Vegetarian Thanksgiving is a lot older than you think
Published
November 13, 2024

‘Meet the Neighbors’ suggests we rethink what we think we know about animals

Author Brandon Keim makes a cogent case for reevaluating how we understand - and treat - the creatures around us, even those we fear or loathe.
Published
November 6, 2024

Stories from Maine: A refusal to obey

Published
October 31, 2024

Stories from Maine: Brunswick’s original boss lady
Published
October 24, 2024

Stories from Maine: Remembering Brunswick’s ‘pauper’s cemetery’
Published
October 15, 2024

50 well-preserved Viking Age skeletons unearthed in Denmark

The Viking Age burial ground contains some 50 'exceptionally well-preserved' skeletons.
Published
October 10, 2024

Stories from Maine: A tale of two flags
Published
September 26, 2024

A Maine professor spent a month in Poland making bagels and searching for his past

University of Maine at Augusta history professor Robert Bernheim hoped bagel diplomacy could help repair some deep wounds left by the Holocaust.