Maine

Fort Knox, now Fort Knox State Park or Fort Knox State Historic Site, in Maine was built from 1844-1869. It is located on the western bank of the... Penobscot River in the town of Prospect, Maine, about 5 miles from the mouth of the river. It was the first fort in Maine built of granite . It is named after Henry Knox, the first US Secretary of War, who at the end of his life lived not far away in Thomaston, Maine. The fort was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970. Construction began during a period of tension between the United Kingdom and the United States over issues about the Canadian border following the Aroostook War. The intent was to defend the Penobscot River and Bangor, Maine, a major source of shipbuilding lumber. Construction funding from Congress was intermittent, and the fort's design was never fully completed although nearly a million dollars were spent. Granite was quarried five miles upriver from Mount Waldo in Frankfort, Maine. It had two batteries facing the river, each equipped with a hot shot furnace to heat cannon shots hot enough to set ships on fire.
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Eagle Island is a State Historic Site in the United States state of Maine. It is an island in Casco Bay, Maine and is preserved because it is the... site of the retirement home of Admiral Robert Peary, the polar explorer. Peary bought the island in 1881 and retired there in 1911, after he had achieved fame and glory with his expedition to the North Pole. His family continued to live in the house he built there, but donated the island to the people of Maine in 1955.
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The John Sedgley Homestead is the oldest homestead in the State of Maine that is still in its original setting. It was built during the early... eighteenth century resettlement period; the first constructions were from 1695 to 1720. Located at lower Scituate Road and Chases Pond Road in York, Maine , the region historically known as York Corners, Maine. It was the first structure built closest in proximity to the Mount Agamenticus summit, in the town of York. "Agamenticus" was the Abenaki name for the York River, meaning "Beyond-the-hill-little-cove". Historically the homestead included a cape, farm home, carriage house, stables building, two outbuildings, and a large land holding, all of which is still existing today. Jonathan Sedgley was born in England between 1680 and 1690 and a turner by trade, came to York as a young man. He married in January 1714 to Miss Elizabeth Adams, the seventh child of Thomas and Hannah Adams, a prominent York family, cousins of Mr. President, John Adams family of Quincy, Massachusetts. Thomas Adams gave the plot of land upon which the homestead stands to the young couple in March 1715.
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Evergreen Cemetery is a garden style cemetery in Portland, Maine, United States. With 239 acres of land, it is the second largest cemetery in the... state. It was established in 1855 in Saccarappa and became the area's main cemetery after the Western Cemetery. As of March 2011, only 110 acres of the 239 acres were used for cemetery-related activities. The Cemetery holds the records for Forest City Cemetery in South Portland. Wilde Memorial Chapel is a Gothic-style chapel. It was built as a mortuary chapel by Falmouth native Mary Ellen Lunt Wilde in 1890. It was designed by Portland architect Frederick A. Tompson and gifted to the city in 1902. The granite building is used for both memorial and wedding services, with a maximum capcity of 105.
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May Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton , an American poet, novelist, and memoirist. Sarton was born in Wondelgem, Belgium . Her parents were science historian George Sarton and his wife, the English artist Mabel Eleanor Elwes. In 1915, her family moved to Boston, Massachusetts. She... went to school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and started theatre lessons in her late teens. In 1945 she met her partner for the next thirteen years, Judy Matlack, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. They separated in 1956, when Sarton's father died and Sarton moved to Nelson, New Hampshire. Honey in the Hive is about their relationship. In her memoir At Seventy, she reflected on how her Unitarian Universalist upbringing shaped her. Sarton later moved to York, Maine. She died of breast cancer on July 16, 1995. She is buried in Nelson, New Hampshire.
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George Lincoln Rockwell was the founder of the American Nazi Party. Rockwell was a major figure in the neo-Nazi movement in the United States, and his beliefs and writings have continued to be influential among white nationalists and neo-Nazis. Rockwell was born in Bloomington, Illinois, the first... of three children of George Lovejoy "Doc" Rockwell and Claire Rockwell. His father was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and was of English and Scottish ancestry. His mother was the daughter of Augustus Schade, a German immigrant, and Corrine Boudreau, who was of Acadian French ancestry. Both parents were vaudeville comedians and actors, and his father's acquaintances included Fred Allen, Benny Goodman, Walter Winchell, Jack Benny, and Groucho Marx. His parents divorced when Rockwell was six years old, and he divided his youth with his mother in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and with his father in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Rockwell attended Atlantic City High School in Atlantic City, and applied to Harvard University when he was 17 years old. However, he was denied admission. One year later, his father enrolled him at Hebron Academy in Hebron, Maine.
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John Cariani is an American actor best known for his role as CSU Tech Julian Beck on television's Law & Order, and for his performance as Motel the Tailor in the 2004 Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof  for which he received a Tony Award nomination. He is also a playwright best known... for his play Almost, Maine. In autumn of 2011, he worked with director J. E. R. Friedenberg and theater students at the Wake Forest theatre program regarding their performance of Almost, Maine. Cariani grew up in Presque Isle, Maine.
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Alice Theresa Hildagard Swanson Esty was an American actress, soprano and arts patron who commissioned works by members of Les Six and other French composers, and American composers such as Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson and Marc Blitzstein, among others. She earned an A.B. degree from Bates College in... 1925. She then moved to New York City to study singing and acting. She was hired as an actress with the Group Theater, which was directed by Lee Strasberg and Harold Clurman, and with the Provincetown Players, an avant-garde theater. Her Broadway credits include Come of Age, with Judith Anderson, and L'Aiglon, with Ethel Barrymore. She married William C. Esty, founder of the William Esty Advertising Agency in the 1930s. Esty continued her interest in the arts, and she began to commission works by many noted composers, poets, and visual artists. In the late 1950s and early 1960s she spent considerable time in Paris, where she befriended many important composers and artists. Between 1955 and 1969 she regularly commissioned musical compositions, and then performed them in major recital halls, including The Town Hall and Carnegie Recital Hall. If Mrs.
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