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Maine groups partner to highlight New England’s Black heritage through series of virtual events
In January and February 2021, Atlantic Black Box and the Indigo Arts Alliance will convene two public conversations related to memory, art, place, and race supported by a grant from the Maine Humanities Council. This pair of events will feature panelists from around New England who have developed site-specific projects aimed at making Black history […]
Camden library to host domestic violence talk
New Hope for Women’s Jesse Lucas will hold an informative online program called “Domestic Violence 101” at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 28, hosted by the Camden Public Library. The talk will provide an overview of the trauma caused by domestic violence. Lucas will also touch upon oppression and its overlap with domestic violence. Email […]
Bowdoin museum to highlight acquisitions from 2020
A special presentation at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 28, will explore a selection of art works – including this Greek Marble Funerary Stele, from Ionia, marble, Second Century BCE – added to the collection in the last year at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Works from the ancient Mediterranean to present-day Maine and […]
Looking Back on Jan. 25
100 Years Ago: 1921 A large attendance for the dinner and meeting of the Forum Committee of the Auburn Chamber of Commerce, at New Odd Fellows Hall, Pleasant Street tonight, is indicated by the requests for reservations, The speaker will be Dr. W. J. Donald of New York City and the caterer will be Stevens […]
Looking Back on Jan. 23
100 Years Ago: 1921 Now that we are really having a bit of Winter weather is the best time to go out and buy a new spring hat. The shapes could not be different, for they are as varied now as the flowers which are becoming so gorgeous upon some of these hats. One may […]
Looking Back on Jan. 22
100 Years Ago: 1921 Crews are now busy on the Androscoggin and the shores of Lake Auburn The ice is about 13 inches thick, clear color and of unusually fine quantity. The cold wave of the present added about two inches to the thickness of the river. It is believed before the harvesting the ice […]
Acadian musician to perform folk songs, talk about his work
USM Franco-American Collection