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The Brady Gang’s last stand in Bangor, the Portland laundry owner named America’s Mother of 1952 and the night Camden burned. These are the Ghosts of Maine stories readers keep coming back to.

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The big white PWM letters and Portland International Jetport sign outside the airport, with fall flowers in frontWhy Is Portland’s Airport a Jetport, and What Does PWM Stand For?8 min readPhotograph of Willard F. Frith in a uniform cap with a Deputy badge, a heavy mustache and a dark coatWillard Frith: The Portland Cop Who Got a Poem From the Burglar He Shot8 min readThe east end of the Hurricane Isle quarry, showing a thick sheet of granite, from a U.S. Geological Survey bulletinHurricane Island: The Maine Granite Town That Shrank to One Voter9 min read
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Sunset Ledge Cove at Hancock Point, Maine, the beach where Nazi spies landed from U-1230 in 1944, looking south over Frenchman BayThe Night Nazi Spies Came Ashore at Hancock Point8 min readAl Brady mugshots on the cover of the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, December 1, 1936The Brady Gang: How Public Enemy No. 1 Died on a Bangor Street in 19378 min readToy Len Goon smiling as she holds her framed American Mothers Committee certificate naming her 1952 Mother for the State of MaineToy Len Goon: The Portland Laundry Owner Who Became America’s Mother of 19529 min readSmoke rising from the ruins of downtown Camden, Maine after the fire of November 10, 1892, with snow on the groundThe Night Camden Burned: How the Great Fire of 1892 Built Today’s Brick Downtown9 min read
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