Old Fort Western is set to offer the program “Martha Ballard’s World: Wife, Mother, Healer, Horticulturist” from 1-4:30 p.m. Saturday, May 18. There will be rotating stations centered on ...

When Martha Ballard arrived on the Maine frontier in 1777, she was 42 years old. She had grown up in a "settled" town in Massachusetts. The 100 families who initially settled Hallowell, Maine came ...

In Ariel Lawhon’s “The Frozen River,” narrator Martha Ballard reveals how a person would navigate the river that flows through Hallowell, Maine, in the late 18th century: “There are only ...

Martha Ballard was a real midwife in the late 1700s who delivered more than 1,000 babies without ever losing a mother. Ballard kept a diary of her life and the town secrets she learned thanks to ...

In Ariel Lawhon's "The Frozen River," narrator Martha Ballard reveals how a person would navigate the river that flows through Hallowell, Maine, in the late 18th century: "There are only two ways ...

In Ariel Lawhon’s “The Frozen River,” narrator Martha Ballard reveals how a person would navigate the river that flows through Hallowell, Maine, in the late 18th century: “There are only ...