(Photo: Eva Murray)A hobby of my youth was to driv... ...Mantinicus Island is a community off the coast of Maine . The 51 people who live there are quite isolated,... ...ope to have our nascent library recognized by the Maine School and Library Network, and to eventually hav... ...organized by the Island Inst...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/01/03/Mantinicus-Island-Population-51-Gets-a-Tiny-Public-Library/(Photo: WCSH6--auto-start video)In 1873, 15-year o... ...od was ice skating in his hometown of Farmington, Maine . His ears were cold. It occurred to him that he c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/12/17/Every-Year-This-Small-Town-Celebrates-the-Inventor-of-Earmuffs/This parking sign was spotted in Portland, Maine , and posted by redditor middleclassjobs. Can you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/Can-I-Park-Here-2/(Photo: Dalhousie University)Dalhousie University... ...mpus. It’s named after the town of Castine, Maine . This is a reference to an episode in American an... ...ar of 1812. Among them was an invasion of eastern Maine in the summer of 1814. British forces conquered t... ...ring Hampden and Bangor. Sher...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/07/How-a-Road-in-Canada-Was-Named-after-a-Pillaged-American-Town/Do you remember the Indian Stream Republic? It was... ...lished by the 1783 Treaty of Paris was vague, but Maine had an even rougher time. Maine fit into these boundaries:from the Northwest Angl... ...aphically nebulous. The people of the District of Maine were especially sen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/21/The-Republic-of-Madawaska-A-Short-Lived-Nation-on-the-US-Canadian-Border/(Photo: Atlas Obscura)The Saint Croix River forms... ...orms part of the boundary between the US state of Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick. The r... ...erry from Deer Island, New Brunswick to Eastport, Maine , you may get a good look at it. You can also take...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/16/Old-Sow-The-Sarlacc-of-Canada/Atlantic puffins once nested up and down the coast... ...ntic puffins once nested up and down the coast of Maine , but hunting and egg-collecting reduced their num... ...d birding enthusiast named Stephen Kress moved to Maine to teach at the Hog Island Audubon Camp on the co... ...pairs had been seen since. U...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/10/Bringing-Back-the-Puffins/Photo: Maine State Aquarium Love lobster? At 27-pound,... ...The beast, caught in the vicinity of Rockland, Maine , was dubbed Rocky, reports the Associ... ...nearly 40-inch-long crustacean to the Maine
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/24/rocky-the-lobster/This may look like a crazy event frozen in time, or a scene from a disaster flick, but it's actually an art installation created for the VIA Advertising Agency by artist Wary Meyers. Called "The Basement Stacks", its nam...
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