This 18th Century Lutheran church was the center of the immigrant German community in Waldoboro.

In the mid 1700’s, Germans were lured to Maine to settle Waldoboro and faced hardship, attacks, eviction, and even fought for the English in Cape Breton

The so-called “most photographed house in Maine”

On a September afternoon in 1855, a 23 year-old Kennebunk woman took an ill-advised hike to the top of Mount Washington.

The “World’s Tallest Indian” overlooks downtown Skowhegan

A nighttime massacre of an Abenaki village opened the Kennebec for English settlement and created a martyr of a controversial French missionary

A former Army fortification at the tip of Phippsburg protected the mouth of the Kennebec during both World Wars

Two Nazis, flush with cash and diamonds, were dropped off by U-Boat on a remote Maine beach to begin a WWII spy mission

This small lighthouse was part of a late 19th century navigation system created to safely guide ships along the tricky Kennebec River

The remarkably bad luck of a lovely steamship that traveled the Maine coast and rivers

Voted Maine’s best theatre, this Lewiston venue puts on plays in a former B-movie theatre that was Stephen King’s favorite Saturday spot

Snowshoe clubs brought thousands of visitors to Lewiston every other year for rollicking international conventions

A restaurant and event space that was home to Bangor’s elite “millionaire’s club” for over 100 years

How Bangor mocked the Maine Prohibition laws and allowed saloons and brothels to thrive in “Hell’s Half Acre”

The former 1822 Oxford County jail was converted and reopened as the village public library in 1902

How a small hilltop village in rural Oxford County produced so many politicians

A huge cold war experimental radar site that had a unique second life

How regular Mainers prepared for a possible Russian attack

An early 20th century Norwegian stone hut built for family picnics provides panoramic views of Penobscot Bay.

The extravagances and fallout of the Gilded Age through Maine connections

An outlandish castle-shaped resort in Freeport built by the Electric Railway King of Maine

Amusement Parks, Hotels, Resorts and Zoos and the Trolleys that Connected Them

Built on the site of a colonial fort, this hulking former cotton mill is now the home to over a hundred different businesses.

Imported French Canadian workers grew Le Petit Canada in the shadow of a Brunswick mill

A federal arsenal built after the War of 1812 to help defend against our Canadian neighbors and their British overlords

Armed Aroostook lumberjacks, angry bears, the shores of Tripoli and Aaron Burr

A sprawling rural church campus that was home to a controversial worldwide religious cult in the early 20th century

A short history of religious cultism in Maine told through the stories of three Baptist pastors