Custom Publications
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Maine at War
A medical student just would not do for the 5th Maine Infantry
By Brian Swartz, Special Sections Editor on April 10, 2013, at 5:02 p.m.
When the 5th Maine Infantry Regiment sought a doctor in the house in 1863, officers discovered that a medical student just would not do. The 1,000-odd men and boys who had marched to war with the 5th Maine two years earlier had encountered germs, diseases, Confederate bullets and viruses galore. ...
Maine at War
A medical student just would not do for the 5th Maine Infantry
By Brian Swartz, Special Sections Editor on April 10, 2013, at 9:39 a.m.
When the 5th Maine Infantry Regiment sought a doctor in the house in 1863, officers discovered that a medical student just would not do. The 1,000-odd men and boys who had marched to war with the 5th Maine two years earlier had encountered germs, diseases, Confederate bullets and viruses galore. ...
Maine at War
Maine snow bird took a March cruise down Jacksonville way
By Brian Swartz, Special Sections Editor on March 26, 2013, at 2:45 p.m.
Restless natives extended a particularly warm “welcome” to the Maine snow bird who cruised to Jacksonville in Florida in late March 1863. Seventeen months earlier, Capt. Henry Boynton had sailed to war with the 8th Maine Infantry Regiment, an outfit cursed with too many arrogant and madcap company officers who ...
Maine at War
Soldier from Bangor battled Shoshones instead of Confederates
By Brian Swartz, Special Sections Editor on March 12, 2013, at 2:17 p.m.
His teeth chattering, his fingers and toes numb in the deep cold, William Farnham of Bangor struggled through knee-deep snow as he approached the Bear River in Washington Territory about 4 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 29, 1863. Around him other men clad in Union blue cursed the snow, their colonel and ...
Maine at War
Reinforcements marched to assist war-weary Union veterans
By Brian Swartz, Special Sections Editor on Feb. 26, 2013, at 3:01 p.m.
To paraphrase the patriotic song “We Are Coming, Father Abraham,” by February 1863, the war-weary Maine veterans who manned the nation’s ramparts from Virginia to Louisiana could “look across the hilltops that meet the southern sky,” where “long moving lines of rising dust your vision may descry.” In this dark ...
Custom Publication of the Bangor Daily News
Escaping slave saw Maine soldiers standing by ‘the gates of Heaven’
By Brian Swartz, Of the Weekly Staff on Feb. 12, 2013, at 2:46 p.m.
Editor’s note: This article is the second of a two-part installment about Samuel Guess, an escaped slave who moved to Bangor sometime near or after the end of the Civil War. Born into slavery, Sam Guess escaped the lash and found safety with two Maine soldiers startled to see him ...
Custom Publication of the Bangor Daily News
Aviation maintenance school to open in Bangor
By Brian Swartz, Of the Weekly Staff on Feb. 12, 2013, at 2:38 p.m.
BANGOR — A new aviation maintenance technician school does not yet exist at United Technologies Center on the Hogan Road, but students are already asking Director Fred Woodman when they can start taking classes. And when the program begins, he foresees no difficulty in filling the classroom. Maine Aero Services ...
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Persistent Abial Edwards courted Anna Conant by wartime mail
By Brian Swartz, Special Sections Editor on Feb. 12, 2013, at 2:23 p.m.
Neither burning barracks nor smallpox nor “the enemy’s bullets flying in all directions” could stay Abial Hall Edwards from the not-so-swift completion of his appointed rounds: courting Anna Lucinda Conant by wartime mail. Edwards and Conant met on the job at a Lewiston textile mill. He hailed from Casco, she ...
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Grab the kids! Rick Charette’s in town at Brewer PAC on Feb. 9
By David M. Fitzpatrick, Of the Weekly Staff on Feb. 05, 2013, at 3:25 p.m.
When I told my wife I was interviewing Rick Charette, she immediately leaped off the couch and began singing “Alligator in the Elevator” and dancing, making chomping jaws with her arms, grabbing her face in mock fright, and cupping her hands to make eyes at me. At 30, she’s 13 ...
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Back Alley Pub opens at Family Fun Bowling Center
By Brian Swartz, Of the Weekly Staff on Feb. 05, 2013, at 3:21 p.m.
BANGOR — Hungry bowlers are packing the booths and tables at the Back Alley Pub. And other diners seeking delicious fare are joining them at the new restaurant, which opened earlier this year at the Family Fun Bowling Center, 15 Hildreth St., Bangor. Tina Saccuto and Dwayne MacLeod own the ...
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Cross-country skiers enjoy the local trails
By Greg Westrich on Feb. 05, 2013, at 3:15 p.m.
There are many great cross-country skiing opportunities in the lower Penobscot Valley. Many golf courses in our area allow skiing on the fairways. A few courses actually groom trails and offer some services; for example, the Barnes Brook X-C Ski Center in West Enfield (732-3006) is on a golf course ...
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Chocolate Fest, auction to highlight 20th anniversary of Next Step Domestic Violence Project
By Ardeana Hamlin, Of the Weekly Staff on Feb. 05, 2013, at 3:12 p.m.
DEDHAM — The Next Step Domestic Violence Project will celebrate its 20th anniversary with its annual Chocolate Fest and Silent Auction 3-5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, at Lucerne Inn in Dedham. The event will benefit Next Step, a nonprofit organization that serves those affected by domestic violence in Hancock and ...
Police seeking tips about pickup truck possibly connected to Glenburn teen’s disappearance
Dixfield teen riding atop car roof pinned under it after rollover
Since 1971, seven Maine children reported missing have not been found
Aggressive out-of-town buyers swarm midcoast real estate market
A better way to help people escape welfare
A letter to Michelle Obama in light of military sex assault epidemic
Five steps to remedy IRS wrongs
Military sex assault
Manchester 15-year-old off to impressive start for Earnhardt Jr.’s JR Motorsports
Houlton council, community still concerned about costly Millar Civic Center
Bangor’s Marcus Davis hopes to counter opponent’s height, reach advantage in Lewiston MMA main event
Kitchen Nightmares meltdown or: How to lose an argument online
Farmers markets embracing food stamps with the help of USDA
Arguments over gun control and abortion will never be settled
A spot of tea, a spread of treats, at Camden’s Fromviandoux