State Of Maine

I DID NOT WRITE THIS, JUST EDITED IT!!!
-Nova Scotia's little sister and New Brunswick's older sister.
-Friends with Quebec and New Hampshire.
-Specks English and French.
-Maine was born as the result of the mixture of Acadian and New 
England settlements within her territory. England and France disputed 
who owned her until after the French and Indian War.
-At one point Acadia had his capital in Maine's lands (although it was all his culture and she didn't really form until later)
-Lived with Massachusetts from 1652 until she became a state in 
1820 (Missouri Compromise). Their personalities get along really well 
and she tends to imitate some of the things he does with her own spin 
to it. (After the Boston Tea party, she did something similar but burned
 the tea instead.)
-She talked a lot about becoming her own state after the 
Revolutionary War, but realized that she still relied too much on 
Massachusetts' strength for protection even though she felt her 
interests and people were under represented in legislature. 
Massachusetts addressed her grievances over the distance between them 
with new roads, a college and expanded her judicial system. This greatly
 satisfied Maine. (1789)
-During the War of 1812, Massachusetts failed to protect Maine 
from invasion. (Massachusetts was STRONGLY opposed to the war and 
basically refused to send out his militia to fight Britain. Most of his 
and the rest of New England's economy revolved around trade with British
 Colonies so the embargo caused by the war was painful to him and his 
interests. He was so stubborn about this that he wouldn't even protect 
his own territory and talked about succeeding.) For the sake of peace 
with Britain to end the war, there was talk about allowing Maine to be 
annexed into Canada, something she deeply resented. This caused her to 
actively pursue becoming a state of her own after the war.
-Did NOT want the war of 1812 and desired to maintain good 
relations with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. She at first put up some 
resistance to his occupation, but surrendered to Britain during the war 
so long as he wouldn't interfere in her trade with her siblings.
-In 1816 separatists from Maine confronted Massachusetts about 
her becoming a state, and Massachusetts said that he'd allow it if she 
voted for independence. There were two unsuccessful votes and it was 
about 3 more years before Maine was resolved to live on her own in 1819,
 but the issue of slavery would delay her statehood for a while longer. 
(Missouri compromise) Maine was very much against the creation of 
another slave-state and even considered repealing her own petition to 
become a state to prevent Missouri from joining the union, but became a 
state in the end. This made statehood a bitter-sweet victory for her.
-Loves seafood. Famous for lobster, which she loves to eat with Blueberry Pie and drink Moxie.
-Very taciturn and doesn't always get sarcasm (or at least ignores
 it). Says as little as possible which sometimes leads to trouble. 
Average Maine conversation: "Hey, what did you feed your dog when it got
 sick?" "Carrots and sawdust..." "Really?" "Mhm." <a week later> 
"I DID WHAT YOU SAID AND MY DOG DIED." "So did mine." "Then why did you 
tell me...?" "You asked."
-Quite shy and likes to keep to herself. Only comes out of her 
shell around people she's familiar with. She can be very sensitive and 
cries easily if her feelings are hurt.
-Uses odd lingo sometimes like "wicked" to describe things.
-Maine has many dialects and pronunciation of different words. there are even Three different accents. Northern, North west and Down East. 
-Some take her quietness and soft voice as being slow or simple, 
but she's actually very shrewd. Good at reading the atmosphere and an 
excellent judge of character.
-What she lacks in book smarts, she more than makes up for in 
common sense. She's perhaps one of the few states who makes it her 
policy to implement common sense on a regular basis.
-She sometimes jokes with Oregon because he "stole" the name of her most populous city.
-Got into a big fight with New Brunswick over trees (border dispute) 
called the Aroostook War. There wasn't an actual battle fought, but the 
situation got so heated that both of them called in their militias. 
America and Britain were forced to define a border between her and New 
Brunswick in 1842. (Something they had repeatedly failed to do since the
 revolution.) New Brunswick was afraid that Maine wanted to invade him, 
Maine wanted her trees and basically said "If America won't fight for my
 land, then I'll do it by myself!" and very nearly caused a war if 
America hadn't stepped in and told her to settle down while he tried to 
find a way to appease her and all those involved. Massachusetts also got
 dragged into the conflict because part of Maine's land still 
technically belonged to him but he had far more restraint/patience in 
the matter than Maine did and was like "We'll see what America and 
Britain can offer..." In the end, things were more favorable for the US.
 Most likely this is because Britain was looking to improve their 
relations. New Brunswick, unlike Maine, didn't have much political clout
 or strength within his government to protest against the agreement even
 if he really wanted to. He quietly accepted the terms although it is 
hard to tell if he was just glad to be through with the issue, satisfied
 with the treaty or just wasn't in the possition to do much more about 
it. America basically had to bribe Maine into accepting the agreement 
and paid her and Massachusetts $150,000 each in compensation.
-More Aroostock War stuff: One of the reasons this got so heated 
was because of the Miramichi Fires that had ravaged Maine and New 
Brunswick. New Brunswick took the worst of the damage and wanted to use 
the trees to rebuild his homes and economy. He lost a LOT of his 
forests in the blaze.
-Even MORE Aroostock War stuff! I've read somewhere that Maine 
and New Brunswick were semi-tricked. Apparently America showed Maine a 
map that said the disputed land belonged to New Brunswick and England 
showed New Brunswick a map that said the disputed land belonged to 
Maine. This caused both of them to back down and try to settle the 
agreement with a compromise. (I haven't totally confirmed this story.
-Share a Naval Base with New Hampshire.
-Old Orchard Beach on the coast is Quebec's favorite place to visit with Maine during the summer and her baseball team uses the stadium there too and a lot of people from Quebec moved to Maine when Exiled from there during the British rule of Canada hence why Maine can speck Canadian French and wanted Quebec to be it's own nation. 
-during the cold war Loring AFB was the only Air Force Base the held B-52's and most of them where sent to Vietnam, the base was closed in 1994 due to inactivity and the fall of the Soviet Union and the base was given the Infamous nick name Boring Loring due to the lack of excitement during it's operational history.
-Maine also remember the elephant mountain disaster that happen on January 24th 1963 when one of Massachusetts's B-52's from Westover AFB crash during a training mission and at Moosehead Lake snow Mobile Club there's a memorial to the 7 men aboard that died in the crash and every year the 2 survivors and those involve with the rescue gather together and remember the 7 men who lost there lives. the wreckage is still there. 
-Maine loves hunting,trapping and fishing and though she hunts she respects nature and her beauty. she also loves to swim during the summer and loves seeing all the people who visits her during summer vacation hence her one of her nick names are vacationland.
-she is also home to the Penobscots, Micmac, passamaquoddy and abenaki Indian tribes.
-Maine has a lot of towns that have lore behind them like a story told by generation form generation like there is a town named Skowhegan in North Central Maine, how it got it's name was three was a French Trapper and a Penobscout Indian named Skow there friends ever since the trapper came to the tribe. the Frenchmen and skow then fought in the French and Indian war where skow was killed. the trapper return some year later and asked the chief where skow was and the chief replied "skow. he gone" and it's rumored in happened where Skowhegan is today..
-Maine Is popular for her clambake and Lobster and blueberry pie and woopie pies. 
-Maine was once the textile center of new England, home to whole towns of textile mills and paper mills but then textiles where being produced else where in more was produced more then she could so these buildings where abandoned and dot the entire state like Gray's Sam Mayal mill which ruins still remain and in Lewistion there is a whole distract with abandon building where the heart of the textile industry died in Maine.
-Maine and Korea also get along well thanks to snot fish she trades with him and this friendship has made them both a lot of Money. 
-Has a Sister-State relationship with the Aomori Prefecture
(Japan) and there's a really cute story attached to them. in late October 1889 a ship called The Chesebrough bound from Hokkaido back to Maine sunk 
just off the shore of the village of Shariki. Aomori and his people rushed to their fishing boats 
to save the sailors but there were only about 4 survivors."Are you Napoleon? Are you Bismarck? Are you Washington?" asked a 
policeman, trying to determine the sailors' nationality. At the mention 
of "Washington," they replied, "Yes! Yes!"
"They are Americans!" the policeman announced.
One of those pulled from the water, a man named Wilson, was unconscious 
and appeared to be near death. But something remarkable happened.
At this time, a woman named Mrs. Han Kudo a 45 years old and the wife of Mr. Yoshiemon Kudo who brought food did not 
hesitate in public. She took off her clothes and hugged Mr. Wilson in the sleet to warm him up. People still say she looked like a heavenly maiden. Miraculously, Mr. Wilson was revived.
For days, even after the survivors recovered from their ordeal and 
departed for their long trip home, Japanese villagers found the bodies 
of other crew members washing up on their shore. All of them, including 
40-year-old Capt. Erikson, received solemn burials. Aomori 
remembered Maine even after her and her people were returned to America 
and would hold a memorial for the survivors every year. at first it was a city sistership with Shariki and Bath and in grew to a sister statehood 45 years later.At the top of a hill overlooking the village is a religious shrine. And 
near that is a stone commemorating the wreck of the ship from faraway 
Maine.
Every year since the disaster, the people of Shariki hold a service for
 the sailors who lost their lives on that night in 1889 And for 100 of those years, Maine forgot about, Aomori later decided to send a letter to her. Maine was shocked he would 
care so much about her people as to keep them in his mind for so long. 
This was the official beginning of their close friendship. They hold a 
special gathering every five years together. 
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