New Gloucester is a town in Cumberland County,Maine,United States. New Gloucester is included in the Lewiston-Auburn,Maine metropolitan New England city and town area. It is home to the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village,the last active Shaker village in the U.S. The town's population was 5,676 at the 2020 census.
Joan of Acre was an English princess,a daughter of Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile. The name "Acre" derives from her birthplace in the Holy Land while her parents were on a crusade.
Thomas of Woodstock,Duke of Gloucester was the fifth surviving son and youngest child of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault.
Humphrey of Lancaster,Duke of Gloucester was an English prince,soldier and literary patron. He was "son,brother and uncle of kings",being the fourth and youngest son of Henry IV of England,the brother of Henry V,and the uncle of Henry VI. Gloucester fought in the Hundred Years' War and acted as Lord Protector of England during the minority of his nephew. A controversial figure,he has been characterised as reckless,unprincipled,and fractious,but is also noted for his intellectual activity and for being the first significant English patron of humanism,in the context of the Renaissance.
Birgitte,Duchess of Gloucester,is a Danish born member of the British royal family. She is married to Prince Richard,Duke of Gloucester,a grandson of George V. They have three children.
Eleanor de Clare,suo jure 6th Lady of Glamorgan was a powerful Anglo-Welsh noblewoman who married Hugh Despenser the Younger,the future favourite of Edward II of England,and was a granddaughter of Edward I of England. With her sisters,Elizabeth de Clare and Margaret de Clare,she inherited her father's estates after the death of her brother,Gilbert de Clare,8th Earl of Gloucester,7th Earl of Hereford at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. She was born in 1292 at Caerphilly Castle in Glamorgan,Wales and was the eldest daughter of Gilbert de Clare,6th Earl of Hertford,7th Earl of Gloucester,5th Lord of Glamorgan and Princess Joan of Acre.
Mary Ellen Chase was an American educator,teacher,scholar,and author. She is regarded as one of the most important regional New England literary figures of the early twentieth century.
Roosevelt Campobello International Park preserves the house and surrounding landscape of the summer retreat of Franklin D. Roosevelt,Eleanor Roosevelt and their family. It is located on the southern tip of Campobello Island in the Canadian province of New Brunswick,and is connected to the mainland by the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Bridge,at Lubec,Maine in the United States.
Eleanor Cobham was an English noblewoman,first the mistress and then the second wife of Humphrey,Duke of Gloucester,who in 1441 was forcibly divorced and sentenced to life imprisonment for treasonable necromancy,a punishment likely to have been politically motivated.
Samuel Thatcher was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
Eleanor de Bohun was the elder daughter and co-heiress,of Humphrey de Bohun,7th Earl of Hereford (1341–1373) and Joan Fitzalan,a daughter of Richard FitzAlan,10th Earl of Arundel and his second wife Eleanor of Lancaster.
Unity Environmental University is a private university based in New Gloucester,Maine with an additional campus in Unity and facilities in Moose River and Thorndike. It offers undergraduate and graduate education based on sustainability science that emphasizes study of the environment and natural resources. Initially founded as a residential school in Unity,Maine,the university expanded into online education in 2016 which grew both its enrollment and number of academic programs. The university moved its online program to the historic Pineland Farms campus in New Gloucester in 2019 and later relocated their administrative headquarters there. Unity Environmental University operates both an online-only program and a hybrid program with on-campus courses in New Gloucester and Unity. It also operates a farm and indoor growing facility in Thorndike and an outdoor center in Moose River.
Llanthony Secunda Priory was a house of Augustinian canons in the parish of Hempsted,Gloucestershire,England,situated about 1/2 a mile south-west of Gloucester Castle in the City of Gloucester. It was founded in 1136 by Miles de Gloucester,1st Earl of Hereford,a great magnate based in the west of England and the Welsh Marches,hereditary Constable of England and Sheriff of Gloucestershire,as a secondary house and refuge for the canons of Llanthony Priory in the Vale of Ewyas,within his Lordship of Brecknock in what is now Monmouthshire,Wales. The surviving remains of the Priory were designated as Grade I listed in 1952 and the wider site is a scheduled ancient monument. In 2013 the Llanthony Secunda Priory Trust received funds for restoration work which was completed in August 2018 when it re-opened to the public.
Eleanor Logan is an American rower. She is the first American rower to win a gold medal in three consecutive Olympics,a three-time Olympic champion and three-time world champion.
USFC Grampus was a fisheries research ship in commission in the fleet of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries,usually called the United States Fish Commission,from 1886 to 1903 and then as USFS Grampus in the fleet of its successor,the United States Bureau of Fisheries,until 1917. She was a schooner of revolutionary design in terms of speed and safety and influenced the construction of later commercial fishing schooners.
Arthur William Wilson was an American artist who painted under several known pseudonyms,including Winslow Wilson and Pico Miran. In Gloucester,Wilson/Miran has been considered an early actor in the Post Modern Art Movement. He is widely quoted from his Manifesto For Post-Modern Art,published in 1951,under the name Pico Miran.
The 2018 Maine House of Representatives elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Maine voters elected state representatives in all 151 of the state house's districts,as well as non-voting members from the Passamaquoddy Tribe and the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians. State representatives serve two-year terms in the Maine State House.
Eleanor Parke Custis was an American artist,mostly known for pictorealist photography. She was a direct descendant of Martha Washington from her first marriage to Daniel Parke Custis.
Edmund Claxton Jr. is an American physician and Democratic politician from Maine. He served in the Maine Senate representing District 20,which includes Auburn,Mechanic Falls,Minot,New Gloucester,and Poland,from 2018-2022. Claxton was born in Massachusetts and attended Princeton University,the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine,and the University of Minnesota where he completed his family medicine residency. He then moved to Maine and co-founded a private practice in Auburn where he worked for several decades. Claxton was first elected to the Maine Senate in 2018 and was re-elected in 2020 for a second two-year term.
Amy B. Arata is an American politician serving as a member of the Maine House of Representatives from the 104th district. She assumed office on December 5,2018.
