Cole, John N.

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Selected Works From the Ground Up (1976) Striper: The Story of Fish and Man (1978/1989) Amaranth, from the Past for the Future (1979) Cityside Countryside: A Journey to Two Places (1980): Sun Reflections: Images for the New Solar Age (1981) Breaking New Ground (1986) Fishing Came First: A Memoir (1989/1991/1997) Tarpon Quest (1991/1998) Claremont Hotel,…

Cohen, William

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William S. Cohen (1997)

William Sebastian “Bill” Cohen was a Republican U.S. Representative and a U.S. Senator from Maine, 1979-1997. Born in Bangor, Penobscot County August 28, 1940; he attended the public schools; graduated, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine in 1962 and graduated, Boston University Law School 1965. He was admitted to the Maine bar in 1965 and commenced practice…

Coffin, Frank Morey

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(1919-2009) a U.S. Representative was born in Lewiston on July 11, 1919. Educated in Lewiston public schools; he graduated from Bates College in 1940, from Harvard Business School in 1943, and from Harvard Law School in 1947. Coffin served in the Pacific Theater with the United States Navy as an ensign and later as a…

Codyville

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is a plantation in eastern Washington County organized in 1871. Recent population losses may threaten its ability to survive. Maine Route 6 links it to Vanceboro on the Canadian Border. This heavily forested area is subject to the “Eastern Interior Region Management Plan” of the Maine Department of Conservation. See photos.

Coburn, Stephen

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Stephen Coburn

(1817-1882) a U.S. Representative was born in Bloomfield (now Skowhegan on November 11, 1817. A brother of Abner Coburn, he attended Waterville and China Academies, was graduated from Waterville (now Colby) College in 1839. Coburn taught a plantation school in Tarboro, North Carolina in 1839 and 1840. Then he returned to become the principal of…

Beston, Henry

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Grave Markers for Elizabeth, left, and Henry, right (2008)

Publications A Volunteer Poilu (1916) Full Speed Ahead (1919) Firelight Fairy Book (1919) Starlight Wonder Book (1921) The Living Age (Editor, 1921) Book of Gallant Vagabonds (1925) The Sons of Kai (1926)The Outermost House (1928) Herbs and the Earth (1935) American Memory (1937) Five Bears and Miranda (1939) The Tree that Ran Away (1941) Chimney…