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Bangor (/ ˈbæŋɡɔːr / BANG-gor) is a city in and the county seat of Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The city proper has a population of 31,753, [3] making it the state's third-most populous city, behind Portland (68,408) and Lewiston (37,121). Bangor is known as the "Queen City." Modern Bangor was established in the mid-19th ...
The Maine accent is the local traditional accent of Eastern New England English spoken in parts of Maine, especially along the "Down East" and "Mid Coast" seaside regions. [1] It is characterized by a variety of features, particularly among older speakers, including r -dropping ( non-rhoticity ), resistance to the horse–hoarse merger , [ 2 ...
History and variants. "Riding Down from Bangor" was a poem written by Louis Shreve Osborne in 1871 while attending Harvard. [2] The text mentions the Eastern Railroad which ceased only a few years later in 1884 when it became part of the Boston and Maine. At some early point, Osborne's poem was set to music. [1]
Fiddler's Dram singles chronology. " Day Trip to Bangor (Didn't We Have a Lovely Time) ". (1979) "Beercart Lane (Dancing in the Moonlight)" (1980) Music video. "Day Trip to Bangor" on YouTube. " Day Trip to Bangor (Didn't We Have a Lovely Time) " is a single by the folk group Fiddler's Dram. The novelty song was released in 1979 and peaked at ...
The Bangor Public Library is the public library of Bangor, Maine. It shares the URSUS online cataloging system with the University of Maine and other Maine libraries. [3] The library's roots date to 1830, when the Bangor Mechanic Association assembled a private collection of books. [4] In 1873, it absorbed several other associations' libraries ...
74000189 [1] Added to NRHP. January 21, 1974. The Zebulon Smith House is a historic house at 55 Summer Street in Bangor, Maine. Built in 1832, it is one of the two oldest houses (along with the Charles Q. Clapp House in Portland) in the state of Maine to be built with a Greek Revival temple front. The house was listed on the National Register ...
Penobscot Theatre Company (PTC), is located in Bangor, Maine . In 1973, George Vafiadis founded the Acadia Repertory Company, which spun off the Penobscot Theatre Company ten years later. [ 1][ 2] Joe Turner Cantu became Artistic Director in 1990 and remained in that position through 1992. Mark Torres was next named Producing Artistic Director ...
Ralph W. 'Bud' Leavitt Jr. longtime columnist and editor for The Bangor Daily News. Born in Old Town, Maine, Leavitt became a cub reporter at The Bangor Daily Commercial at age 17 in 1934. Following the Second World War, Leavitt signed on with The News, where he filed, during the course of his career, 13,104 columns devoted to the outdoors, and ...