Esther Root Adams: Lessons on living large
Esther Sayles Root (right) with Marjorie Crocker in the author photo for “Over Periscope...
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Category: History
Family tradition of challenging Mount Washington links father and son with Harpswell ties
Chuck Cunningham smiles with the winner’s trophy after a stock car race in 1951. (CUNNINGHAM...
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Twice kidnapped, Michael Sinnett found his way home
Michael Sinnett’s grave is in the cemetery behind the old meetinghouse in Harpswell Center....
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Bailey Islander retraces wartime journey of ancestor, a hero of Gettysburg
Jim and Gayle Hays, of Bailey Island, at the mortuary cannon for Jim Hays’...
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Select board OKs plaque for cattle pound
A bronze plaque will soon mark the site of a historic cattle pound in Harpswell Center, after the...
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What’s in a name: The truth about ‘Black Will’ and Bailey Island
A view of Will’s Gut from Orr’s Island, looking toward Bailey Island and Water Cove....
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Saving a local landmark: The history of the Tarr-Eaton House
The 1783 Tarr-Eaton House as it stands today, after a painstaking restoration. (VAN DUSEN FAMILY...
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Harpswell’s first postmaster: Washington Garcelon
Washington and Rosanna Garcelon are buried in the Old Meeting House Cemetery on Harpswell Neck....
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Brunswick Rotary proposes historic marker for cattle pound
The Brunswick Rotary Club hopes to install a bronze plaque to commemorate the 1793 cattle pound at...
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Cemetery plans for restoration of 1800s gravestones after destructive crash
The replacement of a marble monument to the Rich family will cost $27,415. (J.W. OLIVER PHOTO)...
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Robert P. Tristram Coffin: An accidental discovery
A portrait of Robert P. Tristram Coffin by photographer Lotte Jacobi. If I had not tripped over...
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Samuel Merritt: A Harpswell man of distinction and success
Dr. Samuel Merritt, a native of Harpswell, was mayor of Oakland, California from 1867-1869. One of...
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1800s chapel on Bethel Point to host first service since 2019 fire
Bethel Point Church after the fire in November 2019. (TERESA BROCKETT PHOTO) The 19th-century...
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Harpswell a sanctuary for art historian and author Tica Sawin
Art historian and author Martica Sawin at home in Harpswell. (AVERY HUNT PHOTO) Though she keeps a...
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The Harpswell Sound: How four young mothers became local celebrities
Kay Whidden, the last surviving member of The Harpswell Sound, holds a copy of the group’s...
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Orr’s Island man, 96, emerged from WWII to pioneer a new way of childbirth in America
Dr. Philip E. Sumner in 2002. Now 96, Sumner was a machine gunner with the U.S. Army during World...
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Before the Harpswell Anchor, there was the Casco Bay Breeze
The nameplate of the Casco Bay Breeze. Published in the early 1900s, the seasonal newspaper...
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Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay found solace on Ragged Island
Edna St. Vincent Millay on Ragged Island. (ROCKLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY PHOTO) Poet Edna St....
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New monument on Orr’s honors 171 island veterans
Dr. Philip Sumner rings the bell on the new veterans memorial at the Orr’s Island Cemetery...
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‘A sense of discovery’: Bailey Island photographer reflects on globe-trotting career
Robert Freson on the porch of his Bailey Island home, next to the “message stones” he...
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