In 1884 Republican James G. Blaine came within 1,047 votes of becoming the President of the United States. This was the margin by which he lost New York State--and thus the election--to Grover Clevela
From its earliest beginnings, the land that became Maine produced adventurous inhabitants who went outside its boundaries to do interesting things that sometimes made them famous or even infamous. The
Historian and former Maine legislator Rolde traces the rocky relations between Native Americans and European Americans in the state from the initial contact in the 17th century, through 1980 when the