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White horse and goats in the snow in New Portland (December 2009)

White horse and goats in the snow in New Portland (December 2009)

1915 Shipwreck of the three masted schooner William L. Elkins off Cape Elizabeth during a northeast gale.
1931 Kate Furbush, noted botanist and artist, dies in Brunswick where she had lived for over 95 years, traveling all over Maine. She discovered the endangered “Furbush lousewort” that stopped the Dickey-Lincoln dam project in Aroostook County.
1933 Maine ratifies the 18th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, repealing prohibition. (See September 10th.
2001
Power in a evenly split State Senate is transferred from Democrats to Republicans based on a unique agreement to share the Senate presidency for one year each.
2001
First woman Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Court, Leigh I. Saufley, takes the oath of office.
 

 

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