As this is the 50th Anniversary of the first St. Croix Valley International Festival we thought it a good time to look back at its history. The International Festival is unique in many ways but so is the relationship among … 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 at … Continue reading
Harry Henry McClaskey of St. Stephen Harry Haley McClaskey was born in St. Stephen on January 15, 1882, to Alfred Alexander McClaskey and Ida May Conners McClaskey. His father who was always referred to as A.A. McClaskey operated a candy … Continue reading
Many who Calais claims as its own have made a mark in the wide world. They have founded large cities (Portland, Oregon by Francis Pettigrove), served as Abraham Lincoln’s representative at the Hague during the Civil War (James Sheppard Pike), … Continue reading
Saturday Evening Post Cover August 31 1946 A member of the Historical Society recently sent us an article from the above issue of the Saturday Evening Post dated August 31, 1946. The article was titled “St.Calaisphen, North America” and had … Continue reading
Ladies walking in MillCove Robbinston about 1900 One of the most striking and beautiful places on the St. Croix River is Mill Cove in Robbinston where the Ridge Road, formerly the old County Road, and the old Eastport Road, now … Continue reading
The Portland Penny The 1835 coin shown above is now in the possession of the Oregon Historical Society. The coin has an interesting history and may well have come from Calais where its owner, Calais native Francis Pettygrove, sometimes spelled … Continue reading
Photograph of Kimball Bent of Eastport Excerpt from Monday’s Warriors by New Zealand author Maurice Shadbolt, 1992: Between one luckless general and the next there is a fleck of fable in history’s eye called Kimball Bent. What … Continue reading
1500 people watched the hanging of Ebenezer Ball of Robbinston in 1811 “Ball was veiled and conducted upon a scaffold, with a rope hitched to a hook over his head. The sheriff gave him a cloth and told him to … Continue reading
By Jerry LaPointe [See Dr. Swan House, part 1] In 1908, when Dr. Swan died, Minerva Swan’s son, Ralph Horton, and his growing family lived in the house across the street which had been built for him and his bride … Continue reading