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A recent $1.7 million federal budget allocation should make it possible to complete the decades-long project well before the building's 200th anniversary.

Leonard Cummings has led the effort to restore the Abyssinian Meeting House in Portland for 25 years; now he hopes that people show Black Lives Matter by helping to complete the project.

The money will allow the committee that has been restoring one of America's oldest Black churches to complete its work.

The Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center at the University of Maine has announced the Spring 2021 faculty awards. The Center’s mission includes demonstrating the immediacy and applicability of humanities studies, and it supports programs and projects fostering intellectual curiosity, critical reflection and creative innovation.   Susan Camp, adjunct associate professor of art, received funding for â€Duet,” a collaborative project melding original poetry by Kay Retzlaff, a University of Maine at Augusta professor of English, with photographs of Camp’s ephem...