Krista Luttrell
Researching Ancestors. Creating Things.
recent posts
- A Small Update Changed Everything: My mtDNA Genetic Genealogy Journey
- An Honest Day’s Work for an Honest Day’s Pay: Irish supporting Irish in 19th Century Portland, Maine
- Announcement: Major New Brunswick Museum Renovation Underway
- Machias, Margaretta and O’Brien DNA
- America’s 250th and the Maine Irish
Category: Great Hunger
the great hunger of ireland 1845-1852
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An Honest Day’s Work for an Honest Day’s Pay: Irish supporting Irish in 19th Century Portland, Maine
If you stand on Munjoy Hill in Portland, Maine, and look towards the Casco Bay waterfront, you’ll see the brick and stone remnants of the old Portland Company rising up from Fore Street. In the 1800s, this was the city’s biggest employer, a large factory that made locomotives, steam engines, and other heavy machinery. Most…
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An ambitious project is underway in our next-door neighbor’s largest community. The Province of New Brunswick, Canada, is building a new museum of history and culture on Douglas Street in the city of Saint John. According to their website, they expect to complete in 2028. Although it’s been a few years since I visited this…
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Happy New Year! As the United States of America celebrates its 250th birthday, I’ll be sharing 12 bite-sized stories, one per month, throughout this year to explore how Maine’s Irish community helped shape the incredible experiment in democracy we know as the United States of America. Picture Revolutionary-era Maine with its dense, dark, primordial forests, biting Atlantic…
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