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In the spring of 1605, after suffering a winter of starvation, disease and death on St. Croix Island, the remaining members of the first significant European settlement in North America - the French settlers who would be among Maine's creators - went south, temporarily to Massachusetts, thereby establishing a pattern of outmigration that has lasted 400 years.
Pierre Du Gua de Monts and Samuel de Champlain eventually led their expedition north again to Nova Scotia, but Maine knows the type: some rough weather, substandard culinary choices, little to do but wait for spring and they're gone. Though the phenomenon has been with Maine, with rare exception, longer than Maine has been a state, it's gotten worse as fewer people find ways to make a living out of what Maine has in abundance, its woods and water.See the full content of this document
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With Maine's Economy, Creative Is As Creative Does
If Maine's old economy turned on trees, trucks and trawlers, its new one, according to the keynote speaker yesterday at the first Blaine House Conference on Maine's Creative Economy, could turn on talent, technology and tolerance. Economist Richard Flor...
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