Keywords: Activists
Item 149632
Jeremiah Hacker, Portland, ca. 1865
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1865 Location: Brunswick; Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 149639
Helen Nearing and Scott Nearing, Harborside, 1983
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1983-08-12 Location: Brookside Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Reuben Ruby: Hackman, Activist
Reuben Ruby of Portland operated a hack in the city, using his work to earn a living and to help carry out his activist interests, especially abolition and the Underground Railroad.
Exhibit
Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Wiscasset generated electricity from 1972 until 1996. Activists concerned about the plant's safety led three unsuccessful referendum campaigns in the 1980s to shut it down.
Site Page
Highlighting Historical Hampden - Introduction
"… Have you ever wondered what mental health activist Dorothea Dix, U.S. Vice President (1861-1865), Hannibal Hamlin, world renowned author Stephen…"
Site Page
"… an Inn owner and local conservation advocate and activist. He served as Manager of the Jordan Pond House, a Trustee of the Northeast Harbor Public…"
Story
My Africa Book and living in Portland
by Titi de Baccarat
My art is about being an immigrant in the US, my pain, fear, uncertainty, and hope for my future
Story
2020 Sheltering in Place Random Notes During COVID-19
by Phyllis Merriam, LCSW
Sheltering-in-Place personal experiences in mid-coast Maine (Rockland) during March and April 2020
