Video: Maine celebrates long-anticipated bicentennial parade

After it was rescheduled twice due to the pandemic, Maine's bicentennial parade was just the right kind of quirky fun.

Maine Bicentennial Band prepares to celebrate 200 years in a big way

On Friday night, the musicians and band leaders were polishing their instruments and their performance for the Maine Bicentennial Parade, set for Saturday morning.

Chicks With Sticks to perform as part of bicentennial celebration

Coast Guard’s iconic tall ship, Eagle, will visit Maine for belated bicentennial celebration

The 295-foot cutter will be in Portland for 3 days in August for public tours.

Maine finally to get its bicentennial parade – a year late

The parade to celebrate Maine's 200 years of statehood is among numerous bicentennial events that were postponed by the coronavirus pandemic.

Insight: 2020 was a good year – for reading Maine history

The anniversary of Maine statehood gave a retired editor a vantage point to tell the story of the last 200 years, one day at a time.

Our View: Juneteenth offers reckoning on race

The holiday marking the end of American slavery is an occasion to consider the still unfulfilled promises of freedom.

Maine Voices: How an enslaved woman became a free Maine resident

Brought to Bath by her owners on a trip up North, Clara Battease escaped with the help of the local free black community.