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Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"Knopf, New York. Terkel, Studs, Race: How Black & Whites Think & Feel About the American Obsession, 1992, The New Press, New York."

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Maine State documents and Proclamations

"It’s a time when blacks and whites weren’t supposed to be living together in the same household. The races, even in the north that was supposedly so…"

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"… Phebe in Her Old Age Phebe wears a black coat in the only photograph we have of her.Surry Historical Society Resources Surry Town Records…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Listen to the entire "Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold" documentary

"… Listen to Chapter Two The Press, Myths, and Black Peoples in Maine   Listen to Chapter Three The Islanders   Listen to Chapter Four…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - About the Project

"… an article about an upcoming NAACP event for Black History Month on Malaga. The article detailed Malaga’s history, including the myths Matt…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Explore photos from the "Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold" documentary

"A fifty-year old community of black and multi-race families was destroyed. Six months later, the State sold Malaga to the highest bidder for sixteen…"

Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"In 1985 she told the Ellsworth American that, "nothing will ever top the Surry Playhouse for having good fun...We were all from New York, and we all…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"He told the Ellsworth American that he wanted to celebrate the music that had brought him and many others so much joy over the centuries, the music…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"The heyday of American shipping was from 1815 to 1859, and shipyards were a significant employer of Surry workmen in Surry village, East Surry and…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Along the Waterfront

"… the treasurer of the Portland Fish Co., Arthur Black was in Washington D.C. with a delegation to plead for aid for the fishing industry."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 4 of 4

"… and a two piece consisting of a dress, with a black rayon knit bodice attached to a black and white tweedy skirt and matching tweedy three-quarter…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Grand Army of the Republic

"… meetings were sometimes about voting rights for black veterans. During the picnics they also talked about life and the war."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 2 of 3

"… back of what was, perhaps, the original 'little black' cocktail dress by major U.S. designer Nettie Rosenstein featured a huge flat black bow with…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Lace and fringe trimmed walking dress, ca. 1865 - Page 1 of 4

"… blue fringe, knotted at the header, and black machine-made lace at the neck, peplum waist (short, gathered, slightly flared strip of fabric…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1930-1940 - Page 2 of 4

"… names are Hattie Carnegie and Nettie Rosenstein, the latter of which is credited with popularizing the 'little black dress' in the United States."

Bar Harbor Historical Society

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

"… King William King, son of Richard King and Mary Black King, was born 9 February 1768 in Scarborough."

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"Bennett, Black robe on the Kennebec by Mary R. Calvert, and Dawn Over the Kennebec by Mary R. Calvert."

Acadian Archives

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… it was often quicker to travel from Dunstan to Black Point via boat. Travel of any distance was usually via boat or horseback."

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… Lincoln Pulp and Paper and began to manufacture “black ash” or sodium carbonate pulp. From 1899 to 1908, the mill built its reputation on the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"To the best of my knowledge, that black rod iron fence on the Main Street side of the park is part of the original."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"Hanson Black Robe on the Kennebec by Mary Calvert Skowhegan Community In partnership with the Maine Memory Network | Project of Maine Historical…"