May 31

Sheep at Crystal Spring Farm in Brunswick (May 2010)

May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1607 Popham colonists set sail from Plymouth England. 1634 Massachsetts Bay annexes Maine colony, claiming Massachusetts’ colonial charter extends  into Maine. [https://www.onthisday.com/countries/usa/maine] 1893…

May 4

Sheep at Crystal Spring Farm in Brunswick (May 2010)

May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1908 Clifford G. McIntire, Director of the American Farm Bureau Federation, Natural Resources Department and U.S. Congress member, was born in Perham 1968…

May 7

Sheep at Crystal Spring Farm in Brunswick (May 2010)

May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1792 First state-sanctioned election on the separation of Maine from Massachusetts. Though separation lost, the vote was close. 1813 Martha Ballard, whose diary…