Governors of Maine with Oxford County Ties

Seven of Maine\u27s seventy-two governors or acting governors were either born in what is today Oxford County or served from that county which was incorporated on March 4, 1805, two hundred years ago this year. Five of these seven left a legacy as chief executives of the state. Hannibal Hamlin, who served briefly as governor, made important contributions by holding other offices, and Sebastian Streeter Marble ably filled out his predecessor’s term, but is nearly forgotten today: Below they are described in the order of their service. Dr. Howe received his Ph.D. from the University of Maine in 1977. He is the executive director of the Bethel Historical Society and writes extensively on regional and local history

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No Place for a Woman: A Life of Margaret Chase Smith by Janann Sherman; April 1965: The Month That Saved America by Jay Winik

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Reviews of the following books: Imagining New England: Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth Century by Joseph A. Conforti; Katahdin: Wigwam\u27s Tales of the Abnaki Tribe by Molly Spotted Elk. Edited by Pauleena M. MacDougall; Passing for White: Race, Religion and the Healy Family, 1820-1920 by James M. O\u27Toole; Russian Voices on the Kennebec: The Story of Maine\u27s Unlikely Colony by Robert S. Jaster

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Review of the following books: Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry, 1830-1890 by Wayne O\u27Leary; A Lantern in the Wind: The Life of Mary Ellen Chase by Elienne Squire; Red Diamond Regiment: The 17th Maine Infantry, 1862-1865 by William B. Jordan, Jr.; Bayonet! Forward My Civil War Reminiscences by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

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Review of Sea Struck. By W.H. Bunting (Gardiner,Maine: Tilbury House, 2004. Pp. xvi+366.Maps, photographs, notes, index. $30.00)

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Reviews of the following books: Landscape with Figures: Nature & Culture in New England by Kent C. Ryden; Imagining New England: Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth Century by Joseph A. Conforti. A Good and Wise Measure: the Search for the American-Canadian Boundary, 1783-1842 by Francis M. Carroll. John Ford in Focus: Essays on the Filmmaker’s Life and Work, edited by Kevin L. Stoehr and Michael C. Connolly. Styles Bridges: Yankee Senator by James J. Kiepper. Giving Voters a Voice: The Origins of the Initiative and Referendum in America by Steven L. Piott. Androscoggin County, Maine – 150th: A Pictorial Sesquicentennial History, 1854 – 2004 edited by Michael C. Lord and W. Dennis Stires. Down on the Island, Up on the Main: A Recollected History of South Bristol, Maine compiled and annotated by Ellen Vincen

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Reviews of the following books: Little Pine to King Spruce: A Franco-American Childhood by Fran Pelletier; This Splendid Game: Maine Campaigns and Elections, 1940-2002 by Christian P. Potholm; Giving Voters a Voice: The Origins of the Initiative and Referendum in America by Steven L. Piott; The Interrupted Forest: A History of Maine\u27s Wildlands by Neil Rold

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Books reviewed: Manly Hardy (1832-1910): The Life and Writing of a Maine Fur-Buyer, Hunter, and Naturalist. Compiled and Introduced by William B. Krohn; The Grand Old Man of Maine: Selected Letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914, edited by Jeremiah E. Goulka; Israel Washburn Jr.: Maine’s Little-Known Giant of the Civil War, by Kerck Kelsey; Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life, by Charles C. Calhou

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Books reviewed: Manly Hardy (1832-1910): The Life and Writing of a Maine Fur-Buyer, Hunter, and Naturalist. Compiled and Introduced by William B. Krohn; The Grand Old Man of Maine: Selected Letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914, edited by Jeremiah E. Goulka; Israel Washburn Jr.: Maine’s Little-Known Giant of the Civil War, by Kerck Kelsey; Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life, by Charles C. Calhou

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Reviews of the following books: A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the American-Canadian Boundary, 1783-1842, by Francis M. Carroll; Mayflower Hill: A History of Colby College, by Earl H. Smith; Sea Struck, by W.H. Bunting; and Imperial Maine and Hawai’i: Interpretive Essays in the History of Nineteenth- Century American Expansion, by Paul T. Burli