Introduction 9(4)
1 Technology Triumphed
From Sails to Trains: The Decline of Bangor Harbor
13(3)
The Rise of the Automobile
16(3)
Bangoreans Couldn't Wait for the Wireless
19(2)
Promise of Electricity
21(3)
The Great White Flyers
24(4)
The Kenduskeag Stream Transformed
28(2)
First Airplane Flight Over Bangor
30(5)
2 From Stage to Screen: The Bijou and Other Theaters
Norombega Hall Featured Presidents and Other Great Actors
35(2)
The Opera House and the Auditorium
37(3)
Going to the Movies: The Nickel and the Gem
40(3)
The Queen City's First Vaudeville House
43(3)
The Bijou: Bangor's Finest Theater
46(5)
3 Disasters, Tragedies and Mayhem
Six Bangor Boys Died in Sailing Accident
51(3)
Murder at Aunt Hat's?
54(3)
Bangor's First Auto Fatality
57(3)
Cop Killer
60(3)
"Gamble with Death" Caused Train Wreck
63(2)
Killer Heat Wave
65(4)
Gas Explosion Rocked City
69(4)
4 The Great Fire of 1911
Small Fires Plagued City
73(3)
Legends of the Great Fire
76(4)
City Fought to Restore Utilities
80(4)
"Strong Men" Seized the Day
84(3)
Shack Stores Grew Like Mushrooms
87(3)
City Swapped Park for New Post Office
90(3)
Trade Triumphed
93(6)
5 When Bangor Laughed
The Great Porcupine War
99(3)
April Fools
102(2)
Bangor High Boys Ran Riot
104(3)
Escape of Eugene, the Mayor's Pig
107(2)
When the Reverend Berry Did the Hoochee-Coochee
109(3)
Bull vs. Auto
112(3)
6 The Liquor War
Liquor War On Again in Bangor
115(3)
Rotten Bangor: When Carry Nation Stormed the Queen City
118(3)
Judge Chapman's Impeachment
121(2)
Judge Chapman's Revenge
123(3)
Sturgis Men Invade
126(2)
Liquor Amendment Survives Referendum, But Not in Bangor
128(3)
"Our City-Its Pride and Shame"
131(4)
7 The Progressive ERA
Three Bangor Reformers
135(3)
Charities Sought to Help Woodsmen
138(3)
First Public Playground
141(2)
School for Immigrants
143(3)
Voters' League Demanded Moral Reform
146(3)
Boy Scouts' First Hike
149(3)
There Will Never Be Another Jennie Johnson
152(3)
Selected Bibliography 155(4)
About the Author 159