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Historian Randall Bennett to give presentation on Hastings Homestead
A presentation by Randall H. Bennett, “The Hastings Homestead Museum: Five Generations in the Making,” will be given at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 3, at the Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library in Lovell. In a PowerPoint presentation, Bennett will talk about the Homestead, which is in Bethel’s “Broad Street Historic District” and has been continuously […]
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Commentary: Barbie is more than a longtime feminist flashpoint
Together, in the 1960s and ’70s, we weathered the societal upheavals that roiled women’s lives.
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Commentary: What makes me a patriot and not a nationalist
True patriotism acknowledges mistakes in an effort to improve, so that one’s country can be the best it can be.
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The Maine Millennial: You think queerness is a fad? Think again.
I’m more and more proud of the bravery and grit of my lesbian grandmothers.
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Commentary: Remembering – and retelling – my father’s account of Buchenwald in 1945
How can we ensure that future generations respect and honor Holocaust survivors’ and witnesses’ memories?
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Maine Voices: Fifty-five years after Martin Luther King’s assassination, his teachings still ring true
Tyre Nichols’ brutal beating death in Memphis vindicates Dr. King’s 1964 warning about the risks to the lives of Black people at the hands of police.
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Maine Voices: Putin’s war in Ukraine requires us to maintain a difficult balance
We must continue to fight and to resist domination, at the same time that we keep seeking an alternative to arms and to annihilating one another.
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Maine Voices: I am grateful to you, Jimmy Carter, for being my role model
You have lived your ideals and made a real difference in the world, holding on to hope even as some of your biggest accomplishments have been dismantled.
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Our View: Dr. King’s legacy must be honored on a daily basis
Beware the chasm between real steps toward racial equity and false steps. After that, beware the racist response to those steps.