Pre-registration required to receive Zoom Link:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-history-of-maine-with-bob-greene-tickets-256856654167 It is frequently said that Maine is the whitest state in America. Yet Black people have a long history in the Pine Tree State. Slaves? Yes. But also builders, farmers, fishermen, ship captains, educators, etc. It’s that hidden history of our state that Bob Greene will reveal. A native of Portland, Bob Greene ...

Pre-registration required to receive Zoom Link In the spring of 2020, while working on a genealogy project in the history of a local white family in Lincoln County, Maine, independent researcher James Tanzer came across a digital copy of the will of a formerly enslaved Black man named Quash, who lived in Topsham, Maine during the eighteenth century. Eager to ...