Once upon a time, there was the Lincoln Telegraph
PHIL DI VECE News Contributor Sun, 01/17/2021 - 8:45am A portion of the Lincoln Telegraph, an early Wiscasset newspaper that resident Steve Christiansen shared. One of the oldest photographs of Wiscasset village taken not long after the Rundlett Block shown at the right was constructed in 1871, 50 years after the final edition of the Lincoln Telegraph was printed. Let us travel back in time to before Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, television and radio. We’ll stop the clock 200 years ago at 1820. If you lived then, you got your news by word-of-mouth and from newspapers. That spring,...
Source: wiscassetnewspaper.com