Olive McLean Bacon Calais Academy Yearbook photo 1930 Jayna Smith wrote an article in this week’s Advertiser [note: originally written October 30, 2020) in which she described the tragic drowning of Herbert and Olive Bacon in Woodland on Halloween in … Continue reading
Passengers arriving at Calais railroad station, early 1900s Passenger Train at Calais Station 1940s The Romance of the Rails – that bygone era when travel was as simple as getting yourself to the train station on Hog Alley and buying … Continue reading
Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 In 1941 the world was at war: all of Europe, Russia, China and the Middle East were engaged in what was to become the most destructive war in the history of mankind. Only one major … Continue reading
By Lura Jackson [Note: This article was originally published in The Calais Advertiser] Almost two centuries ago, when the fortunes of lumber barons and shipwrights alike could be found floating on the river, Calais began to boom. The population quadrupled … Continue reading
Billboard on Water Street St. Stephen just before the bridge, Calais in background, 1940 When Canada declared war on Germany in September of 1939, it would be over two years before the United States joined the Allies in the conflict. … Continue reading
The First Atomic Explosion in 1945 at Los Alamos New Mexico The building of the atomic bomb during World War Two, known as the Manhattan Project, was perhaps the most secretive military and scientific operation ever undertaken by the U.S. government. Given … Continue reading
Yesterday’s headline in the sports section of the Bangor Daily News ( Sat December 5, 2020) “Formal HS sports practices delayed” came as no surprise given the accelerating spread of the virus in Maine. High school basketball usually begins … Continue reading
Above is a 1925 photo of the officers of the Calais Police Department. Sam Saunders, one of Calais’ most eminent and certainly most humorous historians of the era, described these fellows as follows: “The way I recall, Scout Eye … Continue reading
STEAMSHIP CUMBERLAND LUBEC NARROWS C.1890.going through the Lubec (Maine) Narrows. Mulholland Point Lighthouse on Campobello Island, New Brunswick is at left in the photo. The Cumberland was one a series of steamships that regularly ran between Boston, Portland (Maine), this … Continue reading
. For anyone growing up in Calais in the ‘50s and early ‘60s, Beckett & Company was the store on Main Street where a kid could buy molasses gems, honey sticks and broken fragments of chocolate by the ounce … Continue reading