The unluckiest person in all this was a British customs agent named John Malcolm.

Sawdust, a product previously without any value at all, proved to be an excellent insulator, providing useful extra income for Maine lumber mills.

After years of legwork, Amore came to agree with Richard DesLauriers, chief of the FBI’s Boston office, that the stolen artwork had found its way into the possession of Robert Guarente,

I knew that I should give the painting to either Hobie or Mrs. Barbour, throw myself on their mercy, tell them everything, beg them to help me -

“Would you like to come up to Maine with us this year?”

It took me a moment to realize what he’d asked me.

“No.”

The Gardner was the first museum Grindle had worked for.

In a March 2013 press conference that led to national attention, the FBI sketched out in the vaguest of terms a scenario…

“I was born May 19, 1870, in Washington, D.C.,” he said, speaking slowly enough for the newsmen to copy down his remarks.

With Irwin’s photograph splashed across the front page of virtually every newspaper in the East and an estimated twenty thousand law officers on the lookout for him from Maine to Maryland

Finding privacy became an impossible quest. Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow were married in May 1929, and for their honeymoon went sailing off the Maine coast on a borrowed thirty-eight-foot yacht.

Farnsworth retired to Maine and descended into alcoholism. He died in March 1971, drunk, depressed, and forgotten. He was sixty-four years old.

Problem was, Grant had already served two clunky terms preceding Hayes. Republicans calling themselves the Half-Breeds, led by Maine senator James G. Blaine…

Facts about Dry Tortugas National Park: seventy miles west of Key West; the cluster of islands was discovered by Ponce de Leon in 1513; named the Tortugas, the Spanish word for sea turtles (the adjective “dry” was tacked on later to alert sailors they would drink no fresh water here)

He owes a lot to President Lincoln, who first appointed him the military governor of Tennessee and then chose him to run on the vice presidential ticket after Lincoln asked Hannibal Hamlin of Maine to step down.

Fred Moore could find no one to come to Sacco and Vanzetti’s rescue. Supreme Court justice Louis D. Brandeis, the most likely savior, had to recuse himself because of “personal relations with some of the people interested.”

At about the same time, a plane called Old Glory, owned by William Randolph Hearst, took off from Old Orchard Beach in Maine…

“Sister, brother Harry, and myself will go to Milwaukee tomorrow, and will go to Old Orchard Beach, Maine, by way of the St. Lawrence River. We’ll visit two weeks in Maine, then on to New York.

He graduated in June 1884 with a lackluster record and set out to find “some favorable location” in which to launch a practice.