Keywords: Murders
Item 105922
Say Their Names sign, Brunswick, 2020
Courtesy of Tilly Laskey, an individual partner Date: 2020-06-04 Location: Brunswick Media: Digital image
Item 108789
Blanket Coat by Jennifer Sapiel Neptune, Indian Island, 2021
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1755 Location: Old Town; Thomaston Media: Wool, silk, glass bead
Exhibit
Biddeford, Saco and the Textile Industry
The largest textile factory in the country reached seven stories up on the banks of the Saco River in 1825, ushering in more than a century of making cloth in Biddeford and Saco. Along with the industry came larger populations and commercial, retail, social, and cultural growth.
Exhibit
Father Rasles, the Indians and the English
Father Sebastien Rasle, a French Jesuit, ran a mission for Indians at Norridgewock and, many English settlers believed, encouraged Indian resistance to English settlement. He was killed in a raid on the mission in 1724 that resulted in the remaining Indians fleeing for Canada.
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - A Murder In Strong
"Up until then an accused murderer was considered unworthy to testify. Today, the defendants may testify in their defense, but they cannot be required…"
Site Page
Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 1 of 2
"Kirby admitted to both murders before he committed suicide in an Augusta jail cell in 1925. James Mitchell James M."
Story
Epidemic of violence against Indigenous people
by Michael-Corey F. Hinton
Systemic racism, murder, and the danger of stereotypes
Story
Margaret Moxa's Blanket Coat
by Jennifer Neptune
A contemporary artwork in memory of Penobscots murdered for scalp bounties.
