Michelle Strattard
@chellestrat.bsky.social
High School History teacher - Model UN - GSTA 🏳️🌈 - 2021 Maine History Teacher of the Year - she/her - all opinions are my own
Well, curiosity drove me to dig in to some family research. Turns out my 4th and 5th great grandfathers were members of the Massachusetts Militia, Minot’s company and were part of the fight at Lexington and Concord. #HATM
November 19, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Well, curiosity drove me to dig in to some family research. Turns out my 4th and 5th great grandfathers were members of the Massachusetts Militia, Minot’s company and were part of the fight at Lexington and Concord. #HATM
Imprisoned 70ft down? Uh, no thank you. #HATM
a woman with blonde hair is wearing a blue dress with white lace .
ALT: a woman with blonde hair is wearing a blue dress with white lace .
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November 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Imprisoned 70ft down? Uh, no thank you. #HATM
Re: smallpox innoculation. That is knowledge that came from a African man, Onesimus, who was enslaved to Cotton Mather. They would use cowpox for the source virus. it would be used to fight an epidemic in Boston in 1729. #HATM
November 18, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Re: smallpox innoculation. That is knowledge that came from a African man, Onesimus, who was enslaved to Cotton Mather. They would use cowpox for the source virus. it would be used to fight an epidemic in Boston in 1729. #HATM
Knox will retire to land his wife inherited in Maine in Thomaston. His house, Montpelier, is now a museum. Maine’s first granite fort will be built nearby at the mouth of the Penobscot River which is named after him. Also Maine’s most recent county was created in 1860 will bear his name. #HATM
November 18, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Knox will retire to land his wife inherited in Maine in Thomaston. His house, Montpelier, is now a museum. Maine’s first granite fort will be built nearby at the mouth of the Penobscot River which is named after him. Also Maine’s most recent county was created in 1860 will bear his name. #HATM
The Kennebec River is a big river that can accommodate modern destroyers. Bath Iron Works is at its head. Those rapids are Class 4 level. #HATM
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The Kennebec River is a big river that can accommodate modern destroyers. Bath Iron Works is at its head. Those rapids are Class 4 level. #HATM
Heck even Maine has black Revolutionary soldiers buried here. Eastern Cemetery in Portland is the final resting place of Cato Shattuck of the 15th Mass, Plato McClellan, and James Bowes of the Continental Line. #HATM
November 18, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Heck even Maine has black Revolutionary soldiers buried here. Eastern Cemetery in Portland is the final resting place of Cato Shattuck of the 15th Mass, Plato McClellan, and James Bowes of the Continental Line. #HATM
Ooh the Mowatt campaign! Mowatt bombarded Falmouth because some patriots had captured him earlier in Maine. Incl. Peleg Wadsworth, the poets grandfather. Mowatt was humiliated. #HATM
November 18, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Ooh the Mowatt campaign! Mowatt bombarded Falmouth because some patriots had captured him earlier in Maine. Incl. Peleg Wadsworth, the poets grandfather. Mowatt was humiliated. #HATM
Heads up Mainers! I saw a FB post this morning about these cameras being installed in South Portland.
A recent case in Texas US, illustrates how Flock, and other similar surveillance technology, is expanding the capacity to meld personal obsessions and the state’s interest at a systematic level.
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
The Tech Company Bringing Surveillance Dystopia to Your Town
Flock claims that its technology will literally eliminate crime. But what it’s unleashing may be just as insidious.
newrepublic.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Heads up Mainers! I saw a FB post this morning about these cameras being installed in South Portland.
An event that millions of New England children can regale you with in verse. Thanks to Mainer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His grand-father was a general in the Revolutionary army. He wrote it as a warning about the Civil War. #HATM
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
An event that millions of New England children can regale you with in verse. Thanks to Mainer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His grand-father was a general in the Revolutionary army. He wrote it as a warning about the Civil War. #HATM
Did I miss the mention of the monopoly the Tea Act created for the British East India company? Allowing them to undercut local merchants? It actually lowered the price of tea.
#HATM
#HATM
November 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Did I miss the mention of the monopoly the Tea Act created for the British East India company? Allowing them to undercut local merchants? It actually lowered the price of tea.
#HATM
#HATM
Ok I missed the sewing box but mom yelled out Shaker box! If so that’s not period accurate. 1. Shakers come to America in 1774 and 2. They began making those boxes for sale in 1799. #HATM
November 17, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Ok I missed the sewing box but mom yelled out Shaker box! If so that’s not period accurate. 1. Shakers come to America in 1774 and 2. They began making those boxes for sale in 1799. #HATM
This harpist is Maeve Gilchrist. I’ve met her! She played a celtic festival I helped run a few years ago. She’s an excellent player and singer. #HATM
November 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This harpist is Maeve Gilchrist. I’ve met her! She played a celtic festival I helped run a few years ago. She’s an excellent player and singer. #HATM
Ok stream and chat was too much input. Plus here it’s easier to reply to people. Sharing my tidbits here: the opening fiddle tune is called Hector the Hero written for Gen. Hector McDonald in 1903. Played by Hanneke Cassel, a fantastic fiddler. #HATM
November 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Ok stream and chat was too much input. Plus here it’s easier to reply to people. Sharing my tidbits here: the opening fiddle tune is called Hector the Hero written for Gen. Hector McDonald in 1903. Played by Hanneke Cassel, a fantastic fiddler. #HATM
So today I was working on my candidate wall for my classroom and I found it difficult to find all the people running for governor. Well, the Dems and Indies at any rate. The Repubs had a handy list with links on their website. This race is just as important for Maine as the federal ones.
November 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
So today I was working on my candidate wall for my classroom and I found it difficult to find all the people running for governor. Well, the Dems and Indies at any rate. The Repubs had a handy list with links on their website. This race is just as important for Maine as the federal ones.
I love when I learn something new and it completely upends my lesson plans, it a good way! Today it was the story of Pvt. John Poor of IL, stationed at Ft William, Cape Eliz, ME who might be the first Am. soldier to have died in WW1, days before we dec lwar.
Story by Troy Bennett
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Story by Troy Bennett
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Maybe World War I started here
Some say the first American to fall in the War to End All Wars died in Cape Elizabeth
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November 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I love when I learn something new and it completely upends my lesson plans, it a good way! Today it was the story of Pvt. John Poor of IL, stationed at Ft William, Cape Eliz, ME who might be the first Am. soldier to have died in WW1, days before we dec lwar.
Story by Troy Bennett
shorturl.at/2mkgg
Story by Troy Bennett
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November in Maine
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
November in Maine
Some good news this morning! Can Kim Davis just quietly fade from public discourse already?
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Some good news this morning! Can Kim Davis just quietly fade from public discourse already?