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Charles H. Lagerbom

Charles H. Lagerbom

Charles H. Lagerbom received his BA in History from Kansas State University and MA in History and Archaeology from University of Maine with work on a Revolutionary War truck-house excavated on the Penobscot River. An avid scuba diver, Charles organized underwater video surveys of ship remains in the lakes of Maine as well as the Penobscot Expedition of 1779. He worked in Antarctica with glacial geology research teams from University of Maine Quaternary Institute, now Climate Change Institute. A published author and avid polar, colonial Maine and maritime book collector, Charles has frequently lectured and made presentations on cruise ships and ashore on the history, life, politics and science of the Antarctic as well as Maine colonial and maritime history. He is author of The Fifth Man: The Life of H.R. Bowers (Caedmon of Whitby). Immediate past President of the Antarctican Society, Charles is its current archivist/historian and serves as Membership Chair for the American Polar Society. He is a Social Studies teacher at Belfast Area High School in Belfast, Maine.

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Loyalists, People, War at Sea and Waterways (1775–1783) April 25, 2019 April 24, 2019

Henry Mowatt and the “Wretched” Ship HMS Albany

In 1782, when the sixteen-gun sloop-of-war HMS Albany was determined to be at the end of her usefulness, nobody seemed truly surprised or sad about…

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Features, Law, People March 21, 2018 March 20, 2018

Plenty With Grudges: The Cold Case Murder of Joseph Junin

In February 1791, when local Indian trader Joseph Marie Junin was found dead, shot twice in the head in his cabin in what is…

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Features, People, The War Years (1775-1783) February 26, 2018 February 25, 2018

Gone Bad?: American Patriot Andrew Gilman

When war came to down east Maine in the spring of 1775, a rough frontiersman named Andrew Gilman joined the patriot cause. He served…

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People, The War Years (1775-1783) January 24, 2018 January 22, 2018

The Sad Account of Francis and Mary Archibald on the Maine Frontier

In the years prior to the American Revolution, plenty of opportunities awaited young Massachusetts men on the down east frontier, especially for those who…

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People September 6, 2017 August 19, 2017

Tested Loyalties and Sense of Obligation: Two Maine Men and the American Revolution

What do an American Revolution prisoner of war accused of being a spy, a first born scion of an established wealthy New England family,…

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Places September 12, 2016 September 19, 2016

Fort Pownal, Colonial Maine, 1775

In early morning fog on April 15, 1775, just days before the momentous clash at Lexington and Concord, two innocent-looking vessels appeared off Cape Jellison…

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