Even a year late, Maine bicentennial something to celebrate
Maine’s fortunes have risen and fallen over the past two centuries, but it has remained a state of hardworking and ingenious people
Author: Don Carrigan
Updated: 10:36 AM EDT March 16, 2021
AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine’s 200th birthday was a party that didn’t happen.
March 15, 2020, was to be Maine’s Bicentennial Statehood Day, but instead, the planned celebrations and speeches became one of the first of many casualties of the COVID pandemic.
The entire year's schedule of events and observances was canceled.
Now, in year 201, Bicentennial leaders are hoping to start a Maine 200 “2.0." It began with an event Monday in Orono and more are planned later in the summer.