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A Calais Woman And The Secret Of The Atomic Bomb

Posted on March 7, 2021 by schsuser
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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 →

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The Calais Chiefs

Posted on December 7, 2020 by schsuser
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    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 →

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Crime and Punishment

Posted on November 10, 2020 by schsuser
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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 →

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The Icicle Man

Posted on October 21, 2020 by schsuser
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     The Mansion House in Robbinston has had many notable owners over the years. The first was General John Brewer, one of Robbinston’s first settlers, who built what has been called the “Downeast Mount Vernon” probably about 1815 in the … Continue reading →

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Eastport’s Sunken Treasure

Posted on October 4, 2020 by schsuser
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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 →

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Beckett and Company

Posted on September 27, 2020 by schsuser
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.      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 →

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Frederick Collins and the Trans-Oceanic Canal

Posted on September 16, 2020 by schsuser
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One notable Calais native who has been forgotten over the passage of time is Frederick Collins pictured at left at his graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1867. Perhaps “native” does not strictly apply to Fred Collins as he was born … Continue reading →

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Pleasant Point Brass Band

Posted on August 24, 2020 by schsuser
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     Donald Soctomah, the historian of the Passamaquoddy tribe, sent us the above photo. The drum is, we assume, about a hundred years old and an historic treasure. The Tribe has recently acquired the drum and it reminded us of … Continue reading →

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Calais Fair-Flying Machines and Trotters

Posted on August 17, 2020 by schsuser
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     Over a century ago, in 1912, the St. Croix Valley communities were anxiously anticipating the annual end of summer’s Calais and St. Stephen Fairs. The St. Stephen Fair was already an established event; the Calais Fair at the new … Continue reading →

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The Lubec Gold Scam

Posted on August 2, 2020 by schsuser
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     In 1896, Lubec was a busy and reasonably prosperous town. The 1896 sketch above shows a waterfront lined with wharves . . . Bank Square, Lubec, Me  . . . and a downtown with many impressive public and private … Continue reading →

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