Editor’s note: Waves of European immigrants swept into the United States to escape the poverty and oppression of their homelands around the turn of the 20th century. This six-part series, which began Saturday, focuses on how Bangor, as an example of one Maine community, experienced this rush of… Read More
    In 1907 dressmakers, seamstresses, milliners, tailoresses, stitchers and tailors had Bangor all sewed up. A browse through the Bangor City Directory of that year yielded the names of nearly 200 men and women who named sewing of one kind or another as their profession. And that was only… Read More