Bangor's Irish immigrant community once thrived in neighborhoods across the city
Hard Telling Not Knowing each week tries to answer your burning questions about why things are the way they are in Maine — specifically about Maine...
March 14, 2023
11:04 AM
Hard Telling Not Knowing each week 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 eburnham@bangordailynews.com . When ground was broken for the Shaw's Supermarket on Main Street on Bangor's west side in 1995, the new grocery store was to be built on land that once was at the center of a large and thriving Irish immigrant community.
Emily Burnham