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A Few of FR's Finest.....
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Posted on 11/21/2002 11:25:41 PM PST by daisyscarlett
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THIS WEEK'S THREADs
11-18-02 Outrageous Outtakes
11-19-02 The Holidays Are Coming
11-20-02 Grumpster-Dumpster
11-21-02 JohnHuang2’s My Two Cents-Another Red-Herring
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Thanks so much!!
Lots of beautiful material to share about Maine. Here are some fun facts, too.
More wooden toothpicks are produced in Maine than in any other state.
Freeport is home to the L.L. Bean Company.
Maine is the only state in the United States whose name has one syllable.
Almost 40 million pounds, 90%, of the nation’s lobster supply is caught off the coast of Maine. Maine also produces 99% of all the blueberries in the country.
The first sawmill in the nation was established near York in 1623.
In Wilton there is a cannery that imports and cans only dandelion greens.
Founded in 1866, Togus became the first Veteran’s Hospital in the U.S.
York became the nation’s first incorporated city in 1642.
More than nine-tenths of Maine's total land area is forested, the highest percentage of forest coverage of any state.
One of Maine's most important industries, cotton and woolen textiles, emerged in the 1840s in towns along the Androscoggin and Kennebec rivers.
American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow spent much of his childhood in Portland.
Maine's coastal waters attract a steadily increasing number of saltwater sports fishing enthusiasts.
Famous Individuals from Maine: Hannibal Hamlin, U.S. Vice-President; Stephen King, author; Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, U.S. Vice President; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet; Margaret Chase Smith, first woman to be elected to both houses of Congress.
Thank you!!!
By the way, I checked out your home page (don't know many Conservatives from the great state of Mass.) and that Steak Diane recipe looks wonderful. I'm gonna try it.
I think we will hit rock bottom the next 4 years, but hopefully, after that, Maine will RISE again!
1866??? I had no idea it had been there that long. For heaven's sake! Thanks for the info!!
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