Maine Geography Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/maine-geography Small-Batch Journalism & Comment Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:38:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.halphillips.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-BNyb0KwmkKGrHgoH-C8EjlLlhlGBJrZchZqHQ_35-32x32.jpg Maine Geography Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/maine-geography 32 32 Maine Place Names: Observations on visiting, pronouncing Vienna, Madrid, Calais and Peru — while never leaving the 207 https://www.halphillips.net/maine-naming-conventions-observations-on-visiting-bremen-rome-troy-denmark-peru-palermo-paris-while-never-leaving-the-207?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maine-naming-conventions-observations-on-visiting-bremen-rome-troy-denmark-peru-palermo-paris-while-never-leaving-the-207 https://www.halphillips.net/maine-naming-conventions-observations-on-visiting-bremen-rome-troy-denmark-peru-palermo-paris-while-never-leaving-the-207#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:16:00 +0000 https://www.halphillips.net/?p=4837 Prior to the smartphone era, when folks read mainly in analog fashion, a great many of us kept a Maine Atlas and Gazetteer in the glove compartment of our cars, or the privy. Published by Yarmouth-based mapmaker DeLorme, this oversized, soft-cover booklet neatly divided this Great State of ours into 96 pages, or rectangular quadrants, […]

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