Maine midwives local officials celebrate Martha Ballard

AUGUSTA — Maine midwives and local officials gathered Thursday afternoon at the Blaine House to recognize one of the Augusta area’s most significant historical figures, Martha Ballard, whose diary, written between delivering 816 babies in the 1700s and 1800s, provides a rare, woman’s perspective of otherwise sparsely documented Colonial life.…Read More

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