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Maine Campus November 17 2005, Maine Campus Staff Nov 2005

Maine Campus November 17 2005, Maine Campus Staff

Maine Campus Archives

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Town Of Whitefield Comprehensive Plan, Whitefield (Me.). Comprehensive Planning Committee Oct 2005

Town Of Whitefield Comprehensive Plan, Whitefield (Me.). Comprehensive Planning Committee

Maine Town Documents

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Maine Campus April 21 2005, Maine Campus Staff Apr 2005

Maine Campus April 21 2005, Maine Campus Staff

Maine Campus Archives

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John Mitchell: Journeyman-Poet, Edward D. Ives Feb 2005

John Mitchell: Journeyman-Poet, Edward D. Ives

Maine History

In this article folklorist Edward D. Ives traces the life and work of journeyman-poet John Mitchell, who moved from job to job in northern Maine at the beginning of the twentieth century. Ives uses oral history and a few extant poems to give us a glimpse at the life of the common laborer on the raw northern Maine frontier. Mitchell was a wanderer, but he knew the world of the ordinary working man from the inside out, and his poems express the hopes, fears, humor and irony of daily life as he saw it. “Sandy” Ives is professor emeritus from …


Salt, 2005-2006, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies Jan 2005

Salt, 2005-2006, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

SALT telling Maine stories. Published by the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Number 60 / 61. 2005-2006.

Contents

  • 4 Until Their Feet Leave the Sand by Whit Richardson, photos by Elizabeth M. Claffey When two brothers in the Maine National Guard are called to serve as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom, their respective families unite to hold down the fort.
  • 18 Turn It On, Turn It Up, and Kick Some Butt photo essay by Jennifer Whitney. With support from their mom and dad, Brooke, and Stephanie Hammond have already won seventeen beauty pageant titles.
  • 24 Portland on Three by Chris …


Maine Gov. James B. Longley: Don Quixote And Sir Thomas More, With A Dash Of Machiavelli—An Appropriate Political Dna For The Day?, Jim Mcgregor Jan 2005

Maine Gov. James B. Longley: Don Quixote And Sir Thomas More, With A Dash Of Machiavelli—An Appropriate Political Dna For The Day?, Jim Mcgregor

Maine Policy Review

Jim McGregor, Governor James B. Longley’s executive assistant during his term of office from 1975 to 1979, provides his reflections about Longley the man and the era in which he won election against all political odds to become Maine’s first independent governor. While many historians and State House observers concentrate on the “confrontational Longley,” McGregor sheds new and hitherto private light on the multifaceted Governor Longley and suggests he may have been a man ideal for the time during which he served.