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
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
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
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
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