Sugar beets to St. John mega dam: 7 ideas that almost changed Maine forever

by Chris Burns
5 years ago
Thomas Murphy (right), chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Sugar Division, comments on sugar beets while Fred H. Vahlsing Jr. (left) cuts a beet open for Murphy to examine during a tour of Aroostook County beet farms in 1966. (Presque Isle Star-Herald file photo)
As much as things have changed, many ideas over the years could have made the state unrecognizable as we know it today. Oil refineries, megadams, sugar beet crops and vast “natural preserves” at one time or another came close to reshaping Maine.Read more.