On this date in Maine history: April 16, narrated by Lois Lowry

On this date in Maine history: April 15, narrated by Michael Bourque

On this date in Maine history: April 14, narrated by Brett Williams

On this date in Maine history: April 13, narrated by Patrice McCarron

On this date in Maine history: April 12, narrated by Katherine Joyce

On this date in Maine history: April 11, narrated by Nancy Marshall

On this date in Maine history: April 10, with a message from Travis Mills

On this date in Maine history April 9: narrated by Amy Calder

On this date in Maine history: April 8, narrated by Kate Snyder

April 8, 1851: Neal Dow (1804-1897) is elected mayor of Portland. He quickly uses his influence in that position to lobby successfully for passage later that year of a state law generally banning the purchase and consumption of alcoholic beverages, earning Dow the nickname “the Napoleon of Temperance.” The law, which becomes known nationally as […]

On this date in Maine history: April 7, narrated by Colin Woodard

April 7, 2010: Maine’s Legislature issues a statement of apology for state officials’ forcible eviction a century earlier of a largely interracial group of residents from Malaga Island, in Casco Bay. The island lies off Phippsburg near the mouth of the New Meadows River. A racially mixed community of squatter fishermen’s families lived there. Newspaper […]