Calais Annie H. Smith This painting of the clipper ship Annie H. Smith hangs today in Salem Massachusetts’s famous Peabody Museum. The background is the harbor at Hong Kong in the 1880’s. The caption reads “Ship Annie H. Smith of Calais, … Continue reading
Calais 1958 The world in 1958 was both transfixed and terrified by the nuclear arms race between the Soviet Union, England, and the U.S. The development of this new and more powerful nuclear “fusion” bomb had raised the stakes … Continue reading
Above is a photo of a gent sitting in front of Maguerrewock Cave, or Maguerrowoc Cave or any of ten other spellings found in various articles about this section of Milltown. We will use Maguerrowoc as it is favored by … Continue reading
For those who don’t remember the Riverview Drive-In it was located on Union Street at the bottom of Salem, just below the Calais Federal Bank, and was owned and operated by Joe Driscoll and Paul Redding. Coincidentally the place is … Continue reading
The following was originally written by F.W. Keene, a journalist that once called Red Beach home and who wrote for The Calais Advertiser and other local publications. It is among the articles collected in Keene on Red Beach, available now from Amazon. … Continue reading
The roaring 20’s were an exciting time in the United States and Calais was no exception. The decade brought us bath tub gin; cars as long as small ocean liners; flappers-modern girls who voted, smoked, drank and danced in outfits … Continue reading
The photo above is one of our favorites. It shows a street entertainer commonly called the hurdy-gurdy man performing in Calais in 1896 on Main Street near where the Schooner Restaurant is located today. Ed Boyd, a noted local historian … Continue reading
Dick Barnard asked us for some photos of the State Police officers who served this area back in the old days as the fire hall restorers want to include a memorial to state troopers in the building. We thought … Continue reading
Covered bridges, like the old bridge from St. Stephen to Calais pictured above, have long since passed into history. Not that there aren’t any covered bridges left in the country but those that remain are valuable historical treasures and most … Continue reading
The term “Pony Express” conjures romantic images of the lone horse and rider dashing across the sun swept western plains in the 1860’s, weaving between stands of cactus, dodging sagebrush and the occasional herd of buffalo blocking his path, low … Continue reading