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 behindthescenes tour of some of the intriguing characters and episodes from the Pine Tree States past Read about the vision that sparked Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms 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 Youll 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 Many of the people and events from Maines 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 its the birthplace of chewing gum