Here’s a bit of presidential trivia from DownEast.com.
Why is Barack Obama the forty-fifth president in Maine?
Answer:
“In 1680, the Massachusetts Bay Colony named Thomas Danforth as the first president of the ‘District of Mayne’ to govern the region surrounding Falmouth, as Portland was then called.”
For further background, Maine used to be “Mayne” and it used to be part of Massachusetts.
My name is Keith Michaud and this is “Letters From Away,” a blog written by a Mainer living outside the comfortable and sane confines of New England. The blog is intended for Mainers, whether they live in the Pine Tree State or beyond, and for anyone who has loved ’em, been baffled by ’em or both. Ayuh, I am “from away.” Worse still, I live on the Left Coast – in California. Enjoy! Or not. Your choice.
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