MANY MOONS AGO IN MAINE EXPLORERS IN THE 1500S FOUND MUCH TO WRITE HOME ABOUT.

From: Portland Press Herald (Maine) | Date: July 19, 1999| Author: By JOHN RICHARDSON Staff Writer | Copyright information


Portland Press Herald (Maine)

07-19-1999

MONDAY MAGAZINE
They were famous men, the likes of Giovanni da Verrazano, Samuel de Champlain
and John Smith, who led the European explorations that dramatically and
permanently changed the place we now call Maine.
An obscure English sailor named David Ingram did his part, too.
After getting marooned on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico in the late 1550s,
Ingram somehow made his way north to Maine and a...

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