History

His story has been an inspiration to many.  On July 17, 1939, Donn Fendler was separated from his family near the summit of Mt. Katahdin during a storm.  Battling the elements, not properly dressed, Fendler spent 9 days trying to find help.  When he was found, he was dehydrated, covered in bug bites and had lost almost 16 pounds.

Halloween is coming up fast and here are some interesting things about the day you may not know. The mask for the 1978 movie Halloween was a William Shatner Star Trek mask; it was used because the budget for the movie was tight so they got the cheapest mask they could find.

I have binge watched 'American Pickers' on the History Channel many weekends.Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz travel the country in their van searching for valuable antiques and meeting many interesting people along the way.

Did you know that just off the coast of Eastport, Maine is the largest tidal whirlpool in the western hemisphere? It's the 'Old Sow' whirlpool has a diameter of approximately 250 feet.

I am a born and raised Mainer and I have to admit that I have never heard of Malaga Island and the story behind it. The 40-acre island located at the mouth of the New Meadows River is now owned by the Maine Coast Heritage Trust, but this once small fishing community has a dark secret.

One of baseball’s greatest accomplishments ‘began’ on June 1, 1925 when Lou Gehrig took over first base for Wally Pipp and started his consecutive games streak. It was July 4th, 1939, Gehrig made his famous retirement speech.

The things you find on YouTube, I found an educational and interesting video that C-SPAN took in 2012 of the Maine State House.

Civil War Solider, Army Pvt. Jewett Williams' remains were escorted from Oregon to Maine by the Patriot Guard Riders.  The footage shows various stops and ceremonies along the way.  The soldier, along with the Maine chapter of the Patriot Guard Riders will make the final journey to Hodgdon, Maine on September 17th.

It was in 1976 when then-chemistry teacher Roger Bennatti at George Stevens Academy in Blue Hill, Maine started a four decade long unscientific study on Twinkies.

I can not believe it was 6 months ago that I underwent a 10 1/2 hour surgery to help reduce the symptoms from Chiari Malformation.  I had a posterior fossa decompression and a craniocervial fusion...say what??  I had a brain lift and my head screwed on straight.  But...what excites me more today is that I'm a Google Star!

Civil War veteran Jewett Williams’ ashes begin a motorcycle trip home to Maine. Williams died in an Oregon asylum, and the Patriot Guard Riders are bringing his remains to be buried in Togus National Cemetery.

I can not believe this was 20 years ago.  I remember this, like it was yesterday.  You could hear the crowd go wild all across the globe, as Kerri put the 'Strug' in 'struggle', to do one last vault to help her team win the gold!  Watch her performance:

Perhaps the popularity of this spot stems not from it's size or utility, but from the two-centuries old local folklore of how it earned it's name.

Togus VA in Chelsea, Maine is celebrating its 150th anniversary come November! Togus has not only been around for 150 years, but was actually the nation's first Veterans Home ever established. According to Maine's VA history, Togus admitted their very first veteran on November 10, 1866...

I've been a resident of Sidney, Maine my whole life and strangely enough I've never once noticed statues in Augusta. Whether I was determined to get where I was going or the rotary always seemed too complicated to not focus all of my effort on, I never noticed memorials and monuments directly next to it. Along with the monuments at the rotary, I was told there are a couple outside of the museum as

Taken from VisitMaine.net, I gathered up the facts I found most interesting about Maine. 1. The first naval battle of the Revolutionary War was fought in Machias in 1775. 2. The first ship built by English colonists in Americas was launched on the Kennebec River in 1607...