Open Files

Investigations

Chapters imply things are settled. These are investigations because they aren't.

    I
    [H]

    Why did Levett choose Spicer's Cove?

    You are Christopher Levett, arriving by shallop in 1623. Before you build anything, what does this landscape offer that no other cove in Casco Bay does?

    II
    [HC]

    Reading the Wabanaki Landscape

    What features of Cushing's shoreline would have drawn Wabanaki communities back across generations?

    III
    [HC]

    Understanding Battery Foote

    Could Battery Foote still contain intact underground magazines beneath its visible parapet?

    IV
    [C]

    The Ottawa House

    Where inside this vanished hotel's grounds did people actually lose things?

    V
    [L]

    The Dixie Bull Legend

    Could Dixie Bull realistically have used Cushing's western coves in 1632?