Conference to focus on Maine’s many cultures
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The University of Maine at Augusta and the University of Southern Maine are partnering to host “One sun rose on us today: Stories from Maine’s Long 20th Century,” a virtual half-day conference set from noon to 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 4, online via Zoom.
This conference will include three panels Wabanakiscapes, 20th Maine Jewish Culture, and 20th Century Queer Maine concluding with a keynote by Monica Wood, award-winning author of “When We Were the Kennedys.”
The conference will explore some of the many peoples who have claimed Maine as their home, bringing together scholars from across the state to discuss aspects of Maine’s 20th century, which has received relatively little sustained critical attention to date. The panel discussions will seek to illuminate and articulate not only how we want to understand Maine’s past and present, but also how we want to configure our future.
Bangor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, a 60-bed nursing home that has provided various services in the area for nearly 200 years, is being sold to a Massachusetts health care system.
Covenant Health, based in Tewksbury, Mass., has agreed to acquire the Bangor health care provider for an undisclosed price, according to a news release Tuesday. The deal requires approval from the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, but could close in the next two or three months.
Bangor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is the area’s only nonprofit nursing home and the only independent one in Penobscot County, according to the center’s website. Located on the University of Maine at Augusta’s Bangor campus, the nursing and rehab center traces its origins to 1828. Over the years it has had different functions, including serving as the hospital for Dow Air Force Base, which shut down in 1968.
Eliza Paradis
Wiscasset Middle High School is immensely pleased to announce that nine seniors in the Class of 2021 have earned the distinction of being a “Top Scholar.” To be recognized as a “Top Scholar,” a senior must hold a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher.
Valedictorian Gwenyth C. Webber is the daughter of Heather and Chris Webber of Westport Island. Her many accomplishments at WMHS include the Wesleyan College Book Award for demonstrating academic leadership; the St. Michael s College Book Award for Academic Achievement and Social Conscience; attending the Maine Youth Leadership Seminar her sophomore year; participating in the Keller BLOOM Program at Bigelow Laboratories for Ocean Sciences and she was the class president her freshman through senior years.
The University of Maine at Augusta and the University of Southern Maine are partnering to host “One sun rose on us today: Stories from Maine’s Long 20th
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Photo courtesy of Authors Unbound
The University of Maine at Augusta and the University of Southern Maine are partnering to host “One sun rose on us today: Stories from Maine’s Long 20th Century,” a virtual half-day conference set for noon to 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 4, online via Zoom.
This conference is to include three panels Wabanakiscapes, 20th Maine Jewish Culture, and 20th Century Queer Maine concluding with a keynote by Monica Wood, award-winning author of “When We Were the Kennedys.”
The conference will explore some of the many peoples who have claimed Maine as their home, bringing together scholars from across the state to discuss aspects of Maine’s 20th century, which has received relatively little sustained critical attention to date. The panel discussions will seek to illuminate and articulate not only how we want to understand Maine’s past and present, but also how we want to configure our future.