Published on HelloPortlandMaine.com The Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport was founded in 1939 with a single trolley car saved after the Biddeford & Saco Railroad Company made the decision to switch to buses. Museum founders Gerald Cunningham, John Amlaw, and Ted Santarelli found out about the changeover and arranged a railfan trip to Biddeford...
Published on HelloPortlandMaine.com Come to the Mid Coast region of Maine between Memorial Day weekend and October each year, and you might see the Art Deco-style cars of the Maine Eastern Railroad chugging along the Maine coastline. Between Memorial Day weekend and late June, passengers can take one of two round trips per day...
Published on HelloPortlandMaine.com The brick building on Congress Street next to the Maine Historical Society looks like many old houses in Portland, but with one distinct difference: In the summer dining room of this house, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ((1807-1882)) penned the words “Into each life some rain must fall.” For this is the...
Published at HelloConcord.com Less than 15 miles north of Concord is Canterbury Shaker Village, one of the oldest and best-preserved Shaker communities in the country. It sits on nearly 700 acres of wooded farmland and consists of 25 original restored Shaker buildings and 4 reconstructed ones. Only six miles to the east is New...
