Maine Governor’s Visit Involves Cryptozoology Museum Joking
Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 18th, 2011
The new governor of Maine is visiting Portland, Maine, today.
LePage, in red, and his family.
The event has caused the local newspaper, The Portland Daily Sun to joke about the visit and use the International Cryptozoology Museum as part of their humor.
Gov’s visit today illustrates the ‘two Maines’
By Curtis Robinson
Feb 18, 2011“So,” my friend said, about to poorly recycle a joke originally attributed to Mexican history, “the thing is, that people from rural Maine feel like people from Away stole most of their state … the part with all the good restaurants!”
(The original was that the U.S. stole part of Mexico, the part with the paved roads.)
It’s likely not the best of jokes about what some politicos call “the two Maines,” but we’re going to hear more and more about that cultural gap as Republicans take over state government. That’s because when the Democrats ruled Augusta, most of the protest-screaming was like that hypthotical tree falling in the rural forest — nobody was there to hear it.
Or, at least, nobody we know.
Well, the Other Maine is coming to call today in the person of one Gov. Paul LePage, who has not exactly hung out in Old Port since getting elected. We heard that Loren Coleman at the International Cryptozoology Museum was seeking photos of the governor to install next to Bigfoot and other seldom-seen creatures, but that is almost certainly an urban myth.
The governor is in town to address the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce Luncheon at Eastland Park Hotel at 12:30 p.m. and tour some local businesses (NO PRESS!) before holding a town-hall style meeting at the Westbrook Performing Arts Center…
For rest of the article, see here.
BTW, it is not too early to start voting for the International Cryptozoology Museum for the “Best of 2011.” Start here! REMEMBER to SUBMIT your vote, after voting.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
That is actually very funny! Hope you get some good pics Loren. LOL! I think Republicans in general might be a rarity in that part if not a myth.