Keywords: Ralph Owen Brewster
Item 11852
Margaret Chase Smith and Ralph Owen Brewster enjoying a lobster, 1946
Contributed by: Margaret Chase Smith Library Date: 1946-02-22 Location: Skowhegan; Cape Elizabeth Media: Photographic print
Item 23661
Percival P. Baxter and Ralph Brewster, Augusta, 1925
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1925 Location: Augusta Media: Glass Negative
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In Maine, like many other states, a newly formed Ku Klux Klan organization began recruiting members in the years just before the United States entered World War I. A message of patriotism and cautions about immigrants and non-Protestants drew many thousands of members into the secret organization in the early 1920s. By the end of the decade, the group was largely gone from Maine.
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Scientist, author and explorer Donald B. MacMillan established Wiscasset as his homeport for many of the voyages he made to the Arctic region starting in the early 1920s.
