man in his 80s from Cumberland County. On April 29, 8 employees working at a local Tyson Foods meat packaging plant in Portland, Maine tested positive for COVID-19 prompting talks about halting the plant's production. On the same day, 20 cases were confirmed at the Penobscot Hope House Health and Living Center in Bangor, Maine which houses a homeless shelter. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the state's second-largest outbreak occurred after a wedding reception on August 7, 2020. Sixty-five people attended a reception in Millinocket at a hall that had capacity for 50 people. About half the 53 cases were found in wedding guests, and one woman, who was not a guest, died on August 22. It is unclear if guests wore masks. By September 5, the outbreak had infected 177 people and caused seven deaths, including 80 cases at a prison away. A lawyer for the officiant at the wedding said the Calvary Baptist Church in Sanford was encouraging its congregants to not wear masks, and the church's school, Sanford Christian Academy, does not require face coverings. On October 22, 2020, 46 COVID-19 cases were linked to a fellowship rally between October 2 and October 4 at the Brooks Pentecostal Church. After his death on December 11, 2021, at 62, the Sun Journal reported 2020 U.S. Senate candidate Max Linn may have been the first person in Maine with COVID-19 after he returned from a business trip to Wuhan, China in late December 2019. See also Maine Historical Society Women's suffrage in Maine History of New England List of colonial governors of Maine Herb Adams, politician and historian of Maine Neil Rolde, politician and historian of Maine Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. sixth State Historian, appointed in 2004 Timeline of Portland, Maine Notes Bibliography 18th – 19th-century histories Mather Cotten. Magnalia Christi Americana, or, The ecclesiastical history of New-England: from its first planting in the year 1620, unto the year of Our Lord, 1698, in seven books (1702) A summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive ... By William Douglass. 1755 Hubbard's Narrative History of the Indian Wars. 1677 Thomas Hutchingson. The history of the province of Massachusetts-Bay. Vol. 1. 1828 Thomas Hitchingson. Story of the province of Massachusetts bay, from 1749 to 1774, Vol. 2 George Minot. Continuation of the history of Massachusetts Bay, Vol. 1, 1798 George Minot. Continuation of the