The history of the Pine Tree State would be bare but for the
contributions of hardy and impassioned individuals--generals,
governors, settlers and activists whose lives of leadership make up
the story of Maine's "hidden history." Author Harry Gratwick
creates intimate and detailed portraits of these Mainers, from the
controversial missionary Sebastien Rale to Woolwich native William
Phips, whose seafaring attacks against French Canada earned him the
first governorship of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Gratwick also
profiles inventors who "challenged the assumptions of their] time
and place," such as Robert Benjamin Lewis, an African American from
Gardiner who patented a hair growth product in the 1830s, and
Margaret Knight, a York native who defied nineteenth-century sexism
to earn the nickname "the female Edison." Discover four hundred
years of Maine's history through the tales of its unique residents,
from soprano Lillian Nordica, who left Farmington to become the
most glamorous American opera singer of her day, to slugger George
"Piano Legs" Gore, the only Mainer to have ever won a Major League
batting championship.
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