Maine

The Webster Ashburton Treaty settled the U.S.-Canada border dispute, especially in Maine, and clarified boundaries around the Great Lakes. It also established extradition rules for serious crimes and committed both nations to patrol the African coast to suppress the slave trade. The treaty affirmed…

<p><span class="deck"> From a way Down East came a stench of politics and potatoes, and news of a border incident that true patriots will long remember as</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The Passion of Percy Baxter—</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> … you could battle for clean government, champion virtue, improve the public school, defend the consumer, arbitrate taste, and write lean, telling prose. Or at least that was the author’s dream. Here’s the reality.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The richly embellished account book of an eighteenth-century sea captain, newly discovered in a Maine attic</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A small but dependable pleasure of travel is encountering such blazons of civic pride as “Welcome to the City of Cheese, Chairs, Children, and Churches!”</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">When their side lost the Revolution, New Englanders who had backed Britain packed up, sailed north, and established the town of St. Andrews, New Brunswick. It still flourishes.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Cruising the Maine coast on a schooner built when Ulysses Grant was president</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Small, handsome, and often beleaguered, this surprisingly cosmopolitan Maine city has had a history of clawing its way back from oblivion, and today, it’s on an upswing again.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">There’s a lot more to the often-overlooked mid-coastal Maine than lobster. But the lobster is amazing.</span></p>

<p>Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith was the first in Congress to stand up to the bullying of Joe McCarthy.</p>