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The Fat Boy Drive-In in Brunswick got it's name when it opened in 1955 by its founder,
John Bollinger, having seen the name on a California drive-in.
Jazz clarinetist Brad Terry gets his mail at Macbean's Music on Brunswick's Maine Street.
The Maine Highland Games are held each August at Thomas Point Beach in Brunswick.
The Maine Festival of the Arts is staged in Brunswick each year.
Victoria Crandall was the founder of the Maine State Music Theater, founded in 1959, in
Brunswick.
Brunswick's Fat Boy Drive-In holds its annual Sock Hop on the second Saturday in August.
The Blue Angels, the Navy's precision flying team, draws the largest crowds in Maine, at the
annual Brunswick Naval Air Station Show.
The first Maine Festival was at Bowdoin College campus in Brunswick, in 1971.
The Maine State Music Theater is at Bowdoin College in Brunswick.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin while she lived in Brunswick, was called "the
little lady who started the big war" by President Lincoln.
The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum is at Bowdoin College, in Brunswick.
The boy Daniel Eaton, of Brunswick, when captured by Native Americans in 1757 was taken to
Canada and sold for four dollars.
Bowdoin College, opened in 1820 in Brunswick, was Maine's first medical school.
Maine's first college was founded in 1794, when Bowdoin College in Brunswick opened its doors.
Both Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne graduated from Bowdoin College, in
Brunswick, in 1825.
Franklin Pierce, friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as a student at
Bowdoin College in Brunswick, became fourteenth president of the United States.
Brunswick author John N. Cole wrote the collection of essays titled In Maine.
Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, in Brunswick, is Maine's largest writers and publishers
organization.
Brunswick was the home of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert P. Tristam Coffin.
Tony Award nominee playwright Tina Howe once worked for the Brunswick Record.
"Strange Holiness" by Brunswick's Robert P. Tristram Coffin won him the 1936 Pulitzer Prize for
poetry.
Harriet Beecher Stowe earned $10,000 in the first three months after publication of Uncle Tom's
Cabin,
written while she lived in Brunswick; At that time, it was the largest sum ever earned by an
American
Robert P. Tristam Coffin, of Brunswick, wrote "Living on an island is about the best way there is
left to live" in "Mainestays of Maine" in 1945.
The Rollo books, by Jacob Abbott, of Brunswick, has been called "undoubtedly the most popular
series of juvenile books ever published in America."
John McKee's landmark photography "As Maine Goes" was exhibited at Bowdoin College, in
Brunswick, in 1968.
The Birth of Nature was the title of Thomas Cornell's exhibit of paintings at the Bowdoin College
(Brunswick) Museum of Art in 1990.
Brunswick artist Edythe A. Laws' work was exhibited at the Maine State House three times in the
1970's.
In 1835 Longfellow wrote his travel sketches "Outre Mer" at Emmons House, 25 Federal Street in
Brunswick.
The major-league baseball team New York Yankees was managed by Carl "Stump" Mereill of
Brunswick.
The Dragons is the nickname of the Brunswick High School athletic teams.
The Polar Bears is the nickname of the athletic teams at Brunswick's Bowdoin College.
Ellen Shulman, a member of Brunswick's Bowdoin College swimming team in 1972, was the
first woman in New England to compete in men's varsity intercollegiate athletics.
Competing in Maine's first documented baseball game (October 10, 1860) were the teams
Sunrise
Club of Brunswick and Bowdoin College Seniors.
The score of Maine's first documented baseball game (1860) was Sunrise Club 46, Bowdoin
College
(Brunswick) 42.
Sid Watson coached the Bowdin (Brunswick) ice hockey team to their first Eastern Collegiate
Athletic Conference Division II championship in 1971, when they defeated Vermont 5-4
The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum is in Brunswick, on the Bowdoin College campus.
The town of Brunswick was originally settled in 1628 along the falls of the Androscoggin River. It
was
incorporated in 1738 and named to honor the British House of Brunswick. As the home of Bowdoin
College
(chartered in 1794) and the Brunswick Naval Air Station[1] (http://www.nasb.navy.mil)(external link),
Brunswick has a diversity of population. Several National Historic Districts with grand sea captains'
mansions serve as testaments to the Greek Revival and Federal styles of architecture. The grassy
tree-lined mall links Bowdoin College with the downtown district. Industries include L.L. Bean,
MBNA
credit card company, fiberglass contruction material, electrical switches, Mid-Coast health services,
Submitted By: Wikipedia
Brunswick, Maine has the widest main street in Maine because Indians burned down
the town and in order for that not to happen again they made the main street very
wide so that the fire could not jump from building to building.
Submitted By: Derek Ramsay
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