Fun Facts About Maine

L. L. Bean originated in Newport, Maine, a positive boon to anyone who wants to dress like a lumberjack or like a French trapper from a Bugs Bunny cartoon…

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Maine has twenty-two cities, each one with fewer people than the average New York bus stop.

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Maine’s original capital was Portland; however, it was moved to Augusta to be more central to the three or four dozen people who lived in the state…

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Maine’s state animal is the moose. Chosen because, with those beards of theirs, they are the only member of the deer family capable of impersonating a beatnik.

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Eastport, Maine is the first American town to see the Sun. So, the light they get is a lot fresher than the light they get in California.

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Maine is rich in feldspar and mica… because when you think of wealth beyond your dreams of avarice, you always think about feldspar and mica…

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The town of Strong, Maine once produced seven billion toothpicks a year, but production has since stopped, disheartening amiable cowboys who don’t wanna stir up no trouble but don’t cotton to varmints stealing a widow’s ranch. Many just switched to chewing gum.

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E. B. White, author of Charlotte’s Web, lived in Maine for twenty-eight years, long enough to see both Charlotte the spider and Wilbur the pig die from hypothermia during a nor’easter.

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Maine has many wineries. The best Maine wine? A taste test by wine experts revealed that the best Maine wine is beer.

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Maine’s Black Bears seldom attack humans. According to the National Center for Statistics, 1980-1983, for every death caused by a black bear, 17 deaths are caused by spiders, 25 deaths caused by (from) snakes, 67 deaths from dogs, and 180 deaths from wasps and bees. So, if someone you know is killed by a black bear, stay indoors until the spiders, snakes, dogs or bees manage to even the score…