Bangor Daily News
Maine’s spinners and fiber artists observe an obscure medieval January holiday
St. Distaff’s Day once marked women's return to their daily work of spinning fibers for clothing and thread after the holiday festivities.
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7mAroostook will be hit hardest by oil prices
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4mEagles rule out Hurts for Sunday with blood clot
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3mJon Rahm will be free to leave LIV and pursue other opportunities
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4mTroy Jackson raises $20.4M in a furious Maine Senate campaign ramp-up
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5mSusan Collins and Troy Jackson split sharply on democracy’s future in final debate
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