The Maine law, passed in 1851 in Maine, was one of the first statutory implementations of the developing temperance movement in the United States.
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“It was a Maine lobster town—
each morning boatloads of hands
pushed off for granite
quarries on the islands.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
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—Charles Darwin (1809–1882)