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

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

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

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

Bath native C.W. Morse, was a ruthless businessman who built empires based on bribes, lies and fraud

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

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

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

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

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

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

How regular Mainers prepared for a possible Russian attack

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

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

The extravagances and fallout of the Gilded Age through Maine connections