Emily Burnham

Bangor

Audience Engagement Editor at Bangor Daily News

The dream of the 1890s is alive in Bangor.

Articles

How Stephen King’s love of baseball helped generations of young Bangor athletes

1 week ago | bangordailynews.com | Emily Burnham

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in May 2019. It’s no secret that Stephen King lives and breathes baseball. He’s a lifelong Red Sox fan, and he isn’t shy about sharing his opinion on the team. He used to own a sports talk radio station. He and novelist Stewart O’Nan even wrote a book, “Faithful,” about the Red Sox’s 2004 World Series-winning season.
How the Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race became the biggest of its kind in New England

3 weeks ago | bangordailynews.com | Emily Burnham

This story was originally published in April 2022. This year’s race begins at 10 a.m. Saturday. The first running of the Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race came about because two friends thought it might be a fun idea to race canoes and kayaks in the spring of 1967. Little did founders Sonny Colburn and Lew Gilman know that more than 50 years later, the race would still be going strong.
The story of how a German tourist ended up mistaking Bangor for San Francisco

3 weeks ago | bangordailynews.com | Emily Burnham

This story was originally published in October 2020. Erwin Kreuz, a genial, unassuming 49-year-old Bavarian brewery worker, was quite pleased to be making his first trip overseas from his native Germany, when he boarded a World Airways flight from Frankfurt to San Francisco in early October 1977.
These wacky costumes are a Kenduskeag canoe race tradition

4 weeks ago | bangordailynews.com | Emily Burnham

This story was originally published in April 2024. While serious paddlers can finish all 16.5 miles of the Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race in under three hours, for lots of other people, it’s less about the competition — and more about the fun. Each year, people look forward to seeing folks like Trevor MacLean, Robert Lang and Jeff Owen, all of whom have dominated the race at various points, cross the finish line.
The days of ‘Canadian cash at par’ are likely over for good

4 weeks ago | bangordailynews.com | Emily Burnham

Hard Telling Not Knowing tries to answer your burning questions about why things are the way they are in Maine — specifically about Maine culture and history, both long ago and recent, large and small, important and silly. Send your questions to [email protected].
Gold and diamonds may be hidden in these remote corners of Maine

1 month ago | bangordailynews.com | Emily Burnham

Hard Telling Not Knowing tries to answer your burning questions about why things are the way they are in Maine — specifically about Maine culture and history, both long ago and recent, large and small, important and silly. Send your questions to [email protected]. This story was originally published in May 2024. Who hasn’t had a daydream at some point in their lives of stumbling across a buried cache of money or hidden hoard of gold or diamonds, somewhere out in the wilderness?
3 buried pirate treasures that may be in Maine

1 month ago | bangordailynews.com | Emily Burnham

This story was originally published in March 2024. While people generally associate buried pirate treasure with Caribbean islands and frayed old maps with X marking the spot, Maine also has its fair share of tales of fortunes stashed away for safekeeping — only for the locations to go to the grave with their plundering owners. The story of the first known pirate in Maine starts in 1631, when a man named Dixie Bull came to Boston from England.
The 1st film ever shot in Maine was about its most iconic industry

1 month ago | bangordailynews.com | Emily Burnham

Hard Telling Not Knowing tries to answer your burning questions about why things are the way they are in Maine — specifically about Maine culture and history, both long ago and recent, large and small, important and silly. Send your questions to [email protected]. This story was originally published in March 2024.
Suspicious Maine islanders exposed a longtime con artist nearly 70 years ago

1 month ago | bangordailynews.com | Emily Burnham

Hard Telling Not Knowing tries to answer your burning questions about why things are the way they are in Maine — specifically about Maine culture and history, both long ago and recent, large and small, important and silly. Send your questions to [email protected]. As a young man in the 1940s and ’50s, Massachusetts native Ferdinand Waldo Demara jumped from career to career and calling to calling.
6 of the weirdest animals in Maine’s woods and waters

1 month ago | bangordailynews.com | Emily Burnham

This story was originally published in January 2024. Everyone loves Maine’s charismatic megafauna, charming sea mammals and cute little furbearers — moose and bear, lynx and foxes, seals and dolphins, rabbits and porcupines. They’re on T-shirts and calendars, they are the subject of viral videos, and some of them bring millions of dollars into the state from hunters.