Author: Wayne E. Reilly
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625840888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
When celebrity aviator Harry Atwood made the first aeroplane flight over Bangor in 1912, observers were astonished. It was a sign that the city had recovered from the great fire of 1911 that had destroyed its downtown the year before. While some events are well known, many stories from turn-of-the-century Bangor have been lost to time. In this collection, local author Wayne E. Reilly brings some of the most exciting and intriguing hidden Bangor tales to light--from a gas explosion that left a thirty-foot crater in the middle of downtown to the escape of a mayor's pet pig. Join Reilly as he reveals the hidden stories from Queen City history.
Hidden History of Bangor
Author: Wayne E. Reilly
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625840888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
When celebrity aviator Harry Atwood made the first aeroplane flight over Bangor in 1912, observers were astonished. It was a sign that the city had recovered from the great fire of 1911 that had destroyed its downtown the year before. While some events are well known, many stories from turn-of-the-century Bangor have been lost to time. In this collection, local author Wayne E. Reilly brings some of the most exciting and intriguing hidden Bangor tales to light--from a gas explosion that left a thirty-foot crater in the middle of downtown to the escape of a mayor's pet pig. Join Reilly as he reveals the hidden stories from Queen City history.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625840888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
When celebrity aviator Harry Atwood made the first aeroplane flight over Bangor in 1912, observers were astonished. It was a sign that the city had recovered from the great fire of 1911 that had destroyed its downtown the year before. While some events are well known, many stories from turn-of-the-century Bangor have been lost to time. In this collection, local author Wayne E. Reilly brings some of the most exciting and intriguing hidden Bangor tales to light--from a gas explosion that left a thirty-foot crater in the middle of downtown to the escape of a mayor's pet pig. Join Reilly as he reveals the hidden stories from Queen City history.
What We've Seen and Heard
Author: Bangor High School (Bangor, Maine)
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Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Languages : en
Pages : 38
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A History of Bangor Isycoed
Author: Vivien Lavis-Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781844940936
Category : Bangor on Dee (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
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ISBN: 9781844940936
Category : Bangor on Dee (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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A History of Bangor
Author: Van Buren County Historical Society (Mich.)
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Category : Bangor Township (Van Buren County, Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Category : Bangor Township (Van Buren County, Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Hidden History of Maine
Author: Harry Gratwick
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614231346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Discover 400 years of New England history you won’t find in guidebooks in this collection of true stories and colorful characters from The Pine Tree State. Maine wouldn’t be the magical place it is today without the contributions of little-known individuals whose inspiring and adventuresome lives make up the story of Maine's "hidden history." Journalist and Maine historian Harry Gratwick presents vividly detailed portraits of these Mainers, from the controversial missionary Sebastien Rale to Woolwich native William Phips, whose seafaring attacks against French Canada earned him the first governorship of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Gratwick also profiles inventors such as Robert Benjamin Lewis, an African American from Gardiner who patented a hair growth product in the 1830s, and Margaret Knight, a York native who defied nineteenth-century sexism to earn the nickname "the female Edison." From soprano Lillian Nordica, who left Farmington to become the most glamorous American opera singer of her day, to slugger George "Piano Legs" Gore, the only Mainer to ever win a Major League Baseball batting championship, Hidden History of Maine reveals the men and women who made history without making it into history books.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614231346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Discover 400 years of New England history you won’t find in guidebooks in this collection of true stories and colorful characters from The Pine Tree State. Maine wouldn’t be the magical place it is today without the contributions of little-known individuals whose inspiring and adventuresome lives make up the story of Maine's "hidden history." Journalist and Maine historian Harry Gratwick presents vividly detailed portraits of these Mainers, from the controversial missionary Sebastien Rale to Woolwich native William Phips, whose seafaring attacks against French Canada earned him the first governorship of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Gratwick also profiles inventors such as Robert Benjamin Lewis, an African American from Gardiner who patented a hair growth product in the 1830s, and Margaret Knight, a York native who defied nineteenth-century sexism to earn the nickname "the female Edison." From soprano Lillian Nordica, who left Farmington to become the most glamorous American opera singer of her day, to slugger George "Piano Legs" Gore, the only Mainer to ever win a Major League Baseball batting championship, Hidden History of Maine reveals the men and women who made history without making it into history books.
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Bangor Historical Society
Author: Bangor Historical Society
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Category : Bangor (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Category : Bangor (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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The Bangor Historical Magazine
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Category : Bangor (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Category : Bangor (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Through the Gorge
Author: Merv Pole
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Category : Bangor (S. Aust.)
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Category : Bangor (S. Aust.)
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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The Financial History of Bangor to 1930
Author: Thomas Henry Baldwin
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Category : Bangor (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Category : Bangor (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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The territorial history of Bangor and vicinity ... Read before the ... society, Portland, May 25, 1882
Author: Albert Ware Paine
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Category : Bangor (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Publisher:
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Category : Bangor (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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