by Roland D. Hallee In 1786 on petition to the governor, the plantations of Hancock (Clinton) and Canaan were relieved of their taxes assessed upon them by Winslow on account of their “greate povertie and inabilities.” Winslow was slowly becoming prosperous. The farms were productive, several grist and saw mills were in operation. The river […]
by Roland D. Hallee (See part 3 here.) May 18, 1757 saw the last skirmish with the Indians. Col. Lithgow noticed rafts drifting by the fort a few days earlier. Concluding the Indians had used them to cross the river and were intending to attack the settlement, he sent a boat containing an ensign and […]
by Roland D. Hallee (Continued from last week…) September 1, 1749, nine of the heirs of the men who had bought the rights of the Colony of New Plymouth to Kennebec territory in 1661, met in Boston and became incorporated for the purpose of defending their rights and opening their lands to settlement. The great […]
by Peter Cates The Journey The Journey is a 1959 film depicting a group of travelers stranded by the Russian military in a Hungarian village hotel during the 1956 uprising that was crushed by Soviet Union tanks. It stars Yul Brynner (1920-1985), Deborah Kerr (1921-2009), Jason Robards (1922-2000) and a very good supporting cast that […]
by Roland D. Hallee Continued from last week Those were anxious days at Teconnet. The Indians carefully abstained from acts of violence but the situation grew worse and worse. At last they sent a swift runner through the woods to Pemaquid to invite Magistrate Shurte to a council at Teconnet. Immediately, he set out in […]
by Peter Cates Alison Smith Kyra Sedgwick’s TNT series The Closer opened its seventh season in 2005 with a pilot episode depicting her first day on the job as Deputy Chief of the LAPD Primary Homicide division. What was most compelling to me was guest star Alison Smith portraying the secretary of a computer genius […]
by Roland D. Hallee The French gave the name Abenaquiois (Abenaki) to all the Indians east of the Connecticut Rver, but the name becaume gradually restricted to the dwellers of the Kennebec Valley. These Indians also carried the name Canibas. Before the great Indian war of 1615, it appears the Bashaba or great chief who […]
by Roland D. Hallee There has been much talk on the importance of the renewed alewive runs in the state of Maine. Alewives have co-evolved and co-existed with other native fish and wildlife in Maine’s streams, rivers, ponds and lakes for thousands of years. Many Mainers have never experienced an alewife run because the once […]
by Roland D. Hallee If Assiminasqua, the eloquent orator of the old Teconnet tribe, could speak to us today, he would narrate events more thrilling than those which living man can tell, though it is ours to record the unmerited disaster, tragedy and annihilation of this race. Beginning in 1497, five years after Christopher Columbus […]
by Roland D. Hallee Last week I was asked various questions about the Asian ladybug, in particular. I have done columns on lady bugs in the past, but none on the Asian variety. This is one of the most variable lady beetle species in the world, with an exceptionally wide range of colour forms. It […]