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Spotlight On
Biddeford Heritage Project
Working through the MHS Maine Community Heritage Project, a tight-knit team made up of Project Aspire students from Biddeford High School and staff from the McArthur Public Library and Biddeford Historical Society spent last year building a website on Maine Memory Network dedicated to Biddeford's history. Explore!
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Bill's Mythbusters
Fact checking with William David Barry,
Maine Historian Extraordinaire
Claim: The first sunlight to reach the continental United States shines on
Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park.
Reality: According to the late Arthur Douglas Stover, author of Eminent Mainers, this is true during the winter, but because of the changing relative position of the sun, the first light reaches Mt. Katahdin in the fall and spring, and Mars Hill in Aroostook County during the height of summer. At the time of the European reconnaissance of the Maine coast, Native Americans called their home "Dawnland."
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For more information please contact the Development
Office at
(207) 774-1822, ext. 231 or email info@mainehistory.org
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