Making Meaning with Mainers
Bill Caldwell
1919 – 2001
Bill Caldwell: Complete Reporter, Scrupulous Editor (7)
Maine Author and Columnist Bill Caldwell (2)
A tribute to Bill Caldwell in 2019 (4)
Maine Author and Columnist Bill Caldwell (2)
Covers of Books
Text Excerpts & Access to Books
Click above to read Bill Caldwell’s article in the Portland Press Herald. (9)
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Click above to read a tribute to Caldwell in the Portland Press Herald on June 24, 2001 (8)
Photo Credits and Sources:
Author portrait credits: Maine Press Association (http://mainepressassociation.org/hall-of-fame/)
1. https://www.maine.gov/msl/maine/writdisplay.shtml?id=94673#:~:text=Caldwell%2C%20Bill%20(1919%20%2D%202001)&text=Caldwell%20was%20born%20in%20New,columns%20before%20retiring%20in%201991.
2. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18316948/bill-caldwell
3. https://www.c-span.org/video/?8978-1/maine-special-newspaper-columnist-interview&playEvent
4. https://www.centralmaine.com/2019/09/18/george-smith-to-columnist-bill-caldwell-maine-was-the-best-beat-of-all/
5. https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/03/us/john-gould-94-columnist-in-the-monitor-for-60-years.html
6. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/264665.Bill_Caldwell?from_search=true&from_srp=true
7. Stuart, Mark A. “Complete reporter, scrupulous editor.” The Masthead, vol. 45, no. 4, Winter 1993, p. 18. Gale In Context: High School, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A14970235/GPS?u=brun84057&sid=GPS&xid=f8715bee. Accessed 7 May 2021.
8. “BILL CALDWELL RETURNS TO MAINE FOREVER at Noon Today, the Late Writer’s Ashes Will be Deposited in Brunswick’s Buttermilk Cove.: [FINAL Edition].” Portland Press Herald, Jun 24, 2001, pp. 5C. ProQuest, http://galesupport.com/mainegeo?pl=http://search.proquest.com/newspapers/bill-caldwell-returns-maine-forever-at-noon-today/docview/276981054/se-2?accountid=17222.
9. https://www.ambassadorkennethquinnarchive.org/media/cms/Two_Views_of_Vietnam_07C219CBCC871.pdf
