Showing posts with label place names. Show all posts
Showing posts with label place names. Show all posts

Sunday, April 29, 2018

Maine Place Names

When I found that a Maine relative had married a woman from "Vienna"  I thought for a moment that I had found an exotic European relative. Further research showed, however, that this Vienna was located in Kennebec County, Maine!

From the Sarasota [Florida] Herald-Tribune, July 7, 1979, You Can See Exotic Places All Within the State of Maine, by Jerry Harkavy explains:




This Maine Travelogue (origin unknown) shows up on Facebook every now and again:


My own Maine relatives have lived in Rome, Sidney, Belgrade, Lisbon, Stockholm, Mexico, Norway, Paris, and Lebanon--all without ever leaving the northeasternmost state!