This Day in Maine

by Joseph Owen

Overview

This Day in Maine features more than 600 news items plucked from the remarkable history of The Pine Tree State. Author Joseph Owen highlights defining events such as wars, fires, storms, and pandemics, but also spotlights the athletes, politicians, entrepreneurs, artists, and other people who have shaped the state's singular identity, including Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, L.L. Bean, Samantha Smith, and more. The story of Maine is a compelling journey through time and it is told here just like it unfolded-day-by-day.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781952143168
Publisher:	Islandport Press
Publication date:	08/03/2021
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Joseph Owen is a former copy desk chief of Maine’s Morning Sentinel and Kennebec Journal newspapers. The Maine native earned a Bachelor’s degree in English from St. Anselm College in New Hampshire. He worked as a newspaper editor for twenty-two years, and a newspaper reporter for eighteen years before that, including nine years in Germany at European Stars and Stripes and four years in Japan at its Asian counterpart, Pacific Stars and Stripes. During his time overseas, Owen covered the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989), the Persian Gulf War (1991), Operation Restore Hope in Somalia (1992-93), and the Great Hanshin Earthquake in Japan (1995), among other subjects, ultimately filing reports from twenty countries. Owen is a former president, and current board member of the Augusta-based Kennebec Historical Society. Owen and his wife, Mary, a former psychiatric nurse, have three children and five grandchildren and live in Augusta.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

January 1

February 35

March 65

April 101

May 139

June 169

July 209

August 249

September 283

October 315

November 349

December 381

Acknowledgments 403

Select Bibliography 405