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Sheep at Crystal Spring Farm in Brunswick (May 2010)
| May 6th is Nurses Day beginning Nurses Week to May 12th. Maine’s Dorothea Dix during the Civil War served as Superintendent of Union Army Nurses, working to promote the welfare of the sick and wounded from the nation’s battlefields. | |||
| 1797 | Birth date in the town of Cumberland of Shaker Elder Joseph Brackett, Jr., who wrote the Shaker song, “Simple Gifts.” |
| 1813 | Birth date of Democratic Governor (1879-1880) Alonzo Garcelon of Lewiston. |
| 1856 |
Robert E. Peary, who claimed discovery of the North Pole and was a resident of Maine’s Eagle Island, was born in Cresson, Pennsylvania. | ||
| 1964 | Martin Luther King, Jr., invited by Bowdoin College, speaks at First Parish Church in Brunswick, his only visit to Maine. |