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Passamaquoddy history
Fishing with the Etechemins at Salmon Falls Milltown
Passamaquoddy History Draws International Interest
Businesses and buildings
Last service at the Congregational Church
The Dr. Swan House (part 1) (part 2)
Old Yeller and the State Theatre
Andrews Hotel and Tobacco Stand
The First Congregational Church of Calais
On Old Homes and Famous Authors
Calais Jewelers Over the Years
Of Candy and Rifles: The Story of Beckett and Co
The St. Croix Opera House (by Ned Lamb)
The Master Cabinet Makers of Charlotte County and St. Croix
Dr. Thomson’s Sarsaparilla: Cures when others fail
Ships, trains, and transportation
The voyage of Barque Ada to the Gold Fields (part 1)
The voyage of Barque Ada to the Gold Fields (part 2)
Smuggler’s Friend: The Arch Bridge
A Southerner’s journey Downeast in 1895 (HMT)
Second Letter From Maine (HMT)
The Romance of the Rails Revisited
Beautiful ships and bankrupt builders
A Calais Schooner and the Lost Franklin Expedition
Horses and the Gallop of Progress
Horses in the St. Croix Valley
The Missing Schooner: Julia A. Warr
The First Bicycles in the St. Croix Valley
Everyday living
Calais Fair Flying Machine and Trotters
Were Campobello’s 1800s resorts ruined by the Boston elite?
4th of July – The Shirttail Parade
Mill Cove: Beautiful and Dangerous
Early Doctors – Hard Times and Hangings
Smoking tobacco in the St. Croix Valley: A look back
Thanksgiving in the St. Croix Valley
Historical Society Christmas Cards
Italian Immigrants, Master Builders
A walk along Main Street Calais 1960 (part 1)
A walk along Main Street Calais 1960 (part 2)
Snow Management in the St. Croix Valley
Calais Clean-up Day a Spring Tradition
Teachers of Calais, 1930s and 1940s
A Brief History of Calais Football
Alice Sinclair and the Silent Movie Era in Calais
The Roller Skating Craze of the 1880s
Making history (notable events)
Was a Calais woman responsible for the Civil War?
The Mysterious Death of Fred Stinson
Mysterious German U-Boat sinks in the St. Croix
Calais Man Wins Coin Flip To Name Portland Oregon
Yankee Ingenuity Meets the Gold Rush
The St. Croix Valley and the Gold Rush
North to Alaska – The Klondike
The Fenian Invasion of New Brunswick
Benedict Arnold and the St. Croix Valley
Two Men From Calais Died in Combat in WW1, The Sherman Brothers
German Sabotage Vanceboro 1915
The Calais Girls Basketball team were Maine’s First Champs
The Year Hunting Season was Cancelled
International Festival (expanded)
International Festival 50th Anniversary
Calais and Hawaii Closer Than You Think
The White House Christmas Tree of 1941
Crimes and punishment (or lack thereof)
The St. Stephen Lottery Swindle
A perplexing murder case in Pembroke
Bootleggers and Benedict Arnold
Pirates and Slavers in Calais, Maine
Wool Gathering and Other Crimes
The Baileyville Book Banning Case
St. Croix Valley in the news
St. Croix Valley in the news 1910
Interesting and odd from old newspapers
“It must be true, it was in the paper!”
Bits and Bytes: The St. Croix Valley in national news
Gypsies and other interesting items from the papers
A Look Back at (national and local history by year)
A Look Back at 1946 (the sequel)
Personal Stories Related to the St. Croix Valley
Harold Alley’s short but eventful assignment as a B-24 turret gunner
J. Judson Ames: A St. Croix Valley original
Tragedy at Kellyland: Herbert and Olive Bacon
Luigi Bernardini and the Boston Shoe Store
Emma Boardman: Calais Artist Extraordinaire 1885-1956
Earl Bonness, Grand Lake Stream Guide
The heroine of Spruce Point: Bertha Boyd
Isabella Fogg in the Civil War
Mike Foggia and the Woodland Opera House
Malcolm “Doc” Foster and the Bataan Death March
Keene’s Lake by Henrietta Keene
F. W. Keene Writes of Old Time School Experiences
Gail Laughlin: Suffragette and much more
The Good Morning Man – Ron MacKechnie
The English Bride: John McFarlane
Guy Murchie: One of Teddy’s Roughriders
Olle and Lillian Olsson’s Bad day
William Pattangall and the “Meddybemps Letters”
1959 Calais Anniversary Bull Powers
George S. Pratt, Pioneer of the Airline
Mansion House Drama: Stephen Simkhovitch
Diary of a Gravedigger: Justus Smith(?)
The end of an era: The Unobskey Family
William Vance and the History of Baring, Maine
Exciting 1945 V-Mail: Betsy Walker et al
Mary Woods and the Orphans of Calais The Stone House Online
Horatio Nelson Young: Hero of the Civil War
Old newsletters
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