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The 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 readBest OfThe twin granite light towers of Matinicus Rock, Maine, seen from the seaMatinicus Island: 14 Things You Didn’t Know About Maine’s Most Remote Island12 min readOld carte de visite photograph of a bearded, disheveled man believed to be Daniel Wilkinson, about 1883Daniel Wilkinson, the Last Man Maine Ever Hanged9 min read
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Renys department store in downtown Farmington, Maine, in a three-story brick building that once housed the Music Hall Theater“Laughing Over Their Graves”: How Renys Outlasted the Big Boxes8 min read
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