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Belfast Maine: Irish Identity And Acceptance In A Small City On Penobscot Bay, Kay Retzlaff

Maine History

Retzlaff’s article examines how stereotypes were applied to Irish newcomers in early Belfast, Maine, even by “old-timers,” who also descended from Irish immigrants. Neither shared ancestry nor shared religion removed the stigma of these stereotypes, which complicated Irish identity in Belfast during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as Protestant and Catholic newcomers alike sought to benefit from their ties to the Irish community while separating themselves from their Irish tropes. Kay Retzlaff is a professor of English at the University of Maine at Augusta. She earned her PhD from the University of Maine. Her MA and BA are from the …

Book Reviews, David Raymond, Susan J. Harmon, Polly Welts Kaufman, Ron Baines, Dale Potts, Andy Deroche, Ann Morrisette, Paul T. Burlin Ph.D., Shannon M. Risk

Maine History

Reviews of the following books: The Spice of Popery: Converging Christianities on an Early American Frontier by Laura M. Chmielewski; Champlain's Dream: The European Founding of North America by David Hackett Fischer; Indians in Eden: Wabanakis and Rustiates on Maine's Mount Desert Island, 1840s-1920s by Bunny McBride and Harald E.L. Prins; Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine: Commerce, Culture and Community on the Eastern Frontier by Kevin D. Murphy; Deering: A Social and Architectural History by William David Barry and Patricia MccGraw Anderson; Bethel, Maine: A Brief History by Stanley Russell Howe; Seated by the Sea: The Maritime History of …

Maine Campus February 28 1996, Maine Campus Staff

Maine Campus Archives

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Maine Perspective, V 7, I 20, Department Of Public Affairs, University Of Maine

General University of Maine Publications

The Maine Perspective, a publication for the University of Maine, was a campus newsletter produced by the Department of Public Affairs which eventually transformed into the Division of Marketing and Communication. Regular columns included the UM Calendar, Ongoing Events, People in Perspective, Look Who's on Campus, In Focus, and Along the Mall. The weekly newsletter also included position openings on campus as well as classified ads. Included in this issue is coverage of UMaine's introduction of a winter session for classes; an article about the "Safe Zone wing" of Residential Housing on campus; and a profile piece about Mazie Hough.

Maine Perspective, V 7, I 19, Department Of Public Affairs, University Of Maine

General University of Maine Publications

The Maine Perspective, a publication for the University of Maine, was a campus newsletter produced by the Department of Public Affairs which eventually transformed into the Division of Marketing and Communication. Regular columns included the UM Calendar, Ongoing Events, People in Perspective, Look Who's on Campus, In Focus, and Along the Mall. The weekly newsletter also included position openings on campus as well as classified ads. Covered in this issue are efforts to reinvigorate the Master of Liberal Studies program; the success of the Student Portfolio Investment Fund (SPIFFY); and a profile piece about Jeffry Wright.

Maritime Enterprises Of A Kennebunk Shipowner: William Lord, 1820-1860, Bonita A. Coro

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A study was made of the William Lord Collection of business papers in the Brick Store Museum, Kennebunk, Maine, relating to the activities of William Lord as a merchant and as a shipowner between 1820 and 1860. Lord ran a country store from 1820 to 1828 and from 1830 through 1840. He commenced to invest in ships in the early 1830's.

As a merchant, Lord sold goods shipped from Boston and returned some local produce for sale in Boston or for re shipment to southern ports. The Kennebunk offerings were mainly hay and lumber. Products purchased and sold were carried …