Word: kennebec
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...much of the natural flow of South Florida's Kissimmee River. Maine Governor John McKernan, facing a challenge from Democrat Joe Brennan, a strong environmentalist, startled the audience at his state-of-the-state address last month by , proposing to breach the 3,500-kW Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River. That would allow free passage of Atlantic salmon, shad and other fish for the first time since...
...from which one gifted stalker and marksman would emerge unsplotched. Most of the contestants on hand the day I played were middle-aged prospective dealers who were thinking of setting up commercial game centers on their own land. Wayne Hockmeyer, 43, who runs a river-rafting business on the Kennebec, had come from Maine. Jerry Campbell, 36, a fur trapper, had driven in with a friend from Perth, Ont. Robert Curtiss, 39, who works in real estate for a subsidiary of AT&T, came from Cranford, N.J., despite a protest from his horrified boss...
Founded in 1884 on the Kennebec River, a dozen miles from Popham, where in 1607 the first ship was built by European settlers in the New World, the Iron Works constructed steamers, tugs, trawlers, J.P. Morgan's famous yacht (the one no one could afford if he had to ask how much it cost) and destroyers for the Navy in both world wars. From Pearl Harbor to V-J day, BIW turned out 82 destroyers, vs. 63 for Japan's entire shipbuilding industry. Only eight vessels were lost in combat, and among Navy men "Bath-built" came...
...woman suffrage was still far from realization, and the notion of a woman serving in the U.S. Senate seemed as remote as the moon. Maggie was the eldest of six children of George and Carrie Chase, a working-class couple in Skowhegan, the picturesque mill town on the Kennebec. George operated a one-chair barbershop with a gilt-framed mirror and a shelf of personal shaving mugs for his regular customers. The family lived next door in a maple-shaded, five-room frame house, and as a small girl, Maggie learned how to shave and cut the hair...
Colby roiled in confusion when Connecticut-born Philosopher Bixler arrived in 1942, after teaching at Harvard Divinity School. Founded in 1813, Colby had opened on a pleasant site between the quiet Kennebec River and a country road. A century later, the campus lay suffocating between smelly paper mills and a clanking railroad...