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Item 159
Title: President Roosevelt visits Portland, 1902
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1902-08-26
Location: Portland
Media: Black and white photograph
Item 157
Title: President Roosevelt visits Portland
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1902-08-26
Location: Portland
Media: Black and white photograph
Item 17065
Title: Hopalong Cassidy Visits Fryeburg, ca. 1947
Contributed by: Fryeburg Historical Society
Date: circa 1947
Location: Fryeburg
Media: Photograph
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A Portland newspaper wrote about an ice storm of January 28, 1886 saying, "The city of Portland was visited yesterday by the most inconvenient storm of the season."
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Samantha Smith, a Manchester schoolgirl, gained international fame in 1983 by asking Soviet leader Yuri Andropov whether he intended to start a nuclear war and then visiting the Soviet Union to be reassured that no one there wanted war.
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Several Mainers have run for president or vice president, a number of presidents, past presidents, and future presidents have had ties to the state or visited here, and, during campaign season, many presidential candidates and their family members have brought their campaigns to Maine.