It Happened in Maine

From the story behind the first women voters to the last legal log drive in America It Happened in Maine takes readers on a behind-the-scenes tour of some of the intriguing characters and episodes from the Pine Tree State’s past.<BR />Read about the vision that sparked Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin as well as how a couple of entrepreneurs managed to sell more than two million shares of stock in a company created to make gold from seawater. You’ll meet Cornelia “Fly Rod” Crosby the first female fly rod angler and Abbie Burgess a woman who became a lighthouse keeper when she was only a teenager. <BR />Many of the people and events from Maine’s past are well known but many are not. Did you know that one of the shortest championship title fights in history - the one between Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston - took place in a small youth center in Maine? Or that a few determined colonists from tiny Machias helped inspire the start of the American Navy? Did you know that Maine is the only state to declare war on a foreign country? Or that it’s the birthplace of chewing gum?<BR />