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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
We4: Leisure Quotes, Lance Gibbs Phd
We4: Leisure Quotes, Lance Gibbs Phd
We Exist Series 4: Quotes
Welcome to the fourth exhibit in the series of “We Exist”. In this section we have selected quotes that represent and explain how Maine’s Black residents’ create the processes behind their engagement in particular leisure activities. The quotes also highlight the particular types of leisure activities that Maine’s Black residents suggest that they are involved in. The quotes are taken from transcripts of the oral history project "'Home Is Where I Make It': African American Community and Activism in Greater Portland, Maine”. The interview subjects are all native to Maine or are longtime residents of Maine. The original intent of …
Abdurraqib, Samaa, Iris Sangiovanni, Samar Ahmed
Abdurraqib, Samaa, Iris Sangiovanni, Samar Ahmed
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Samaa Abdurraqib is a Black, queer, Muslim woman living in Portland, Maine. Abdurraqib was raised in Columbus, Ohio. She attend the University of Ohio, and later the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she received a PhD in English Literature. After graduating she worked as a visiting professor at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Next she went on to work the American Civil Liberties Union in Maine as a reproductive rights organizer. She now works for the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence. Her advocacy and organizing work has included places such as Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine, …
The Triumph Of The Passenger Ship - An Exhibition Of The Norman H. Morse Ocean Liner Collection, Osher Map Library
The Triumph Of The Passenger Ship - An Exhibition Of The Norman H. Morse Ocean Liner Collection, Osher Map Library
Osher Map Library Exhibition Catalogs
Triumph of the Passenger Ship: Highlights from the Norman H. Morse Ocean Liner Collection, 1870-2010.
May 15, 2012 to August 23, 2012
The experience of life aboard the great vessels that plied the Atlantic, from the introduction of steam to the rise of air travel, is presented through this selection of materials from the Morse Collection of ocean liner ephemera.
The Grand Tour And Development Of Tourism: 1600-1900, Osher Map Library
The Grand Tour And Development Of Tourism: 1600-1900, Osher Map Library
Osher Map Library Exhibition Catalogs
The Grand Tour and Development of Tourism, 1600 to 1900.
October 4, 2011 to April 28, 2012
The 400th anniversary of Thomas Coryat’s "Crudities" (1611), the first tourist memoir, is celebrated by this history, to 1918, of the European tourism industry and the development of guidebooks and maps.
Curated by Yolanda Theunissen, USM.
The Coldest Crucible - Arctic Exploration In American Culture, Portland Museum Of Art, Michael F. Robinson
The Coldest Crucible - Arctic Exploration In American Culture, Portland Museum Of Art, Michael F. Robinson
Osher Map Library Exhibition Catalogs
The Coldest Crucible - Arctic Exploration in American Culture.
March 14, 2009 to June 21, 2009
In the late 1800s, “Arctic fever” swept the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to find a sea route to Asia and, ultimately, to stand at the North Pole. This exhibition paints a new portrait of these polar voyagers by placing them within the tempests of American cultural life.
In collaboration with the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine.
Summer 2006, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
Summer 2005, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
Spring 2005, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
Fall/Winter 2005, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
Summer 2004, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
Spring 2004, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
Fall 2004, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
Fall 2003, 909 Wmpg Fm
Ms. Joanna Boley-Lee On Leisure, Maureen Elgersman Lee
Ms. Joanna Boley-Lee On Leisure, Maureen Elgersman Lee
We Exist Series 4: Quotes
Interviewer: Maureen Elgersman Lee.
Interviewee: Ms. Joanna Boley-Lee (age 66; born 1937 in Newark, New Jersey; lived in Maine for 8 ½ years)
“I think my closing reflections would be that when I came to Lewiston I remember walking across the bridge that goes across the Androscoggin, the extension of Main Street, just sort of looking out, and there was a black man with a camera and I thought, good, there's a black person. So I went up to him and I introduced myself, told him I was new in the area and he tells me he was visiting. I …
Reverend Albert Jackson And Mrs. Clemmie Jackson On Leisure, Maureen Elgersman Lee
Reverend Albert Jackson And Mrs. Clemmie Jackson On Leisure, Maureen Elgersman Lee
We Exist Series 4: Quotes
Interviewer: Maureen Elgersman Lee
Interviewees: Reverend Albert Jackson (born in Slabfork, Virginia; age 61; lived in Maine for 43 years) and Mrs. Clemmie Jackson (born March 1948 in Marengo County, Alabama; age 55; lived in Maine for 3.5 years)
“Well I like it. You know, I describe it as, ah, a place where you can shop. I notice when it rain, a lot of people go out to eat. They like to eat here in Maine. And I've noticed -- I've (inaudible) –but this is a good area to live in.”
Interviewer: “Are there any events in Lewiston and Auburn's …
Mr. James Sheppard On Leisure, Sanela Zukic
Mr. James Sheppard On Leisure, Sanela Zukic
We Exist Series 4: Quotes
Interviewer: Sanela Zukic
Interviewee: Mr. James Sheppard (born in New York City in 1924; both his parents immigrated from Antigua in the West Indies to Canada, then they came to the United States in 1923; moved to Maine in 1971).
“But in addition to that we'd have lots of summer events: picnics and that sort. But that's separate; that's a different thing.”
“Between my wife and I, we saw to it that they did a lot of reading. And we did a lot of traveling. We did a lot of traveling to the Caribbean and South America, and we took …
Winter/Spring 2003, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
Mr. Richard Terrence On Leisure, Rachel Talbot-Ross
Mr. Richard Terrence On Leisure, Rachel Talbot-Ross
We Exist Series 4: Quotes
Interviewer: Rachel Talbot-Ross
Interviewee: Mr. Richard Terrence (age 57; born 1945 in Cleveland, Ohio; moved to Maine in October 1975)
“And, you know, raising my children is interesting in that as they grew older and as they noticed the very differences, they were starting to mix in very well. They were making friends, and, you know, they were involved in sporting activities and community.”
Mrs. Emma Jackson On Leisure, Maureen Elgersman-Lee
Mrs. Emma Jackson On Leisure, Maureen Elgersman-Lee
We Exist Series 4: Quotes
Interviewer: Maureen Elgersman Lee
Interviewee: Mrs. Emma Jackson (age 62; born 1941 in Atlanta Georgia; lived in Maine for 46 years; has three children)
“Because it wasn't ever in the - the -- the, ah, club scenes, or any scenes like that. Actually, we live, ah, a really sheltered life. We went to church. We were involved. But the church was our main focus and our main goal. And I -- and -- and our lives were wrapped -- revolved around that. So that might be -- which would be a reason why we didn't--”
Fall/Winter 2002, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
Spring 2002, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
Summer 2002, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
Mr. Edgar Anderson On Leisure, Amber Panzella
Mr. Edgar Anderson On Leisure, Amber Panzella
We Exist Series 4: Quotes
Interviewer: Amber Panzella
Interviewee: Mr. Edgar Anderson (Male; age 51; born 1950 in Chicago suburb called Harvey; Moved to Portland Maine in 1985)
“I just spent last weekend down in Massachusetts with-as I said before-with my daughter who played in basketball tournaments Saturday and Sunday, so we spent the weekend in Massachusetts playing basketball. This weekend her mom will spend time with her in Hudson, New Hampshire, playing softball. She's also a softball player…Yeah, and two weeks from now we're gonna be in Connecticut, and the week after that we'll be playing basketball in D.C. So we're very involved with …
Ms. Lucille Young On Leisure, Anab Osman
Ms. Lucille Young On Leisure, Anab Osman
We Exist Series 4: Quotes
Interviewer: Anab Osman
Interviewee: Ms. Lucille Young (age 73; born 1928 in Jackson, Mississippi; moved to Maine in 1967) “[Barbeque] Yeah. We have four picnic tables in the backyard, and chairs, and we have a grill. And I have a swimming pool, so they’re always there. They’re always at my house. Which I’m trying to get rid of half of them, but I know it’ll never happen.”
Mrs. Rose Jackson On Leisure, Hamida Suja
Mrs. Rose Jackson On Leisure, Hamida Suja
We Exist Series 4: Quotes
Interviewer: Hamida Suja
Interviewee: Mrs. Rose Jackson (age 66; born in Louisville, Mississippi; lives in South Portland for 39 years; married 34 years; has six children; had five children with her first husband; he died and she remarried and had a child with the current husband)
“And we would get together, like, have a fish fry on the weekend with our white friends, our white neighbors. And when we would get out and fish, my daddy and them would go down and get in the water and just muddy the water up with hoes-what you chop cotton with-and the fish …
Mrs. Odessa Barret On Leisure, Usm African American Collection
Mrs. Odessa Barret On Leisure, Usm African American Collection
We Exist Series 4: Quotes
Interviewer: -
Interviewee: Odessa Barret (born in Port Arthur, Texas, 1948)
“Life for me as a child was bitter sweet. I was between the youngest boy and girl so I was never alone. Church was the focal point of our lives. It was a time of "White Only" restrooms and drinking fountains, but we were spared a lot of that because we owned our own car so public transportation was not a worry for us. Traveling food for us was a basket of fried sausage and biscuits if it was morning and fried chicken and bread if it was lunch …
Mrs. June Mckenzie On Leisure, Aretha Williams
Mrs. June Mckenzie On Leisure, Aretha Williams
We Exist Series 4: Quotes
Interviewer: Aretha Williams
Interviewee: Mrs. June McKenzie (age 72; born 1929 in Portland Maine; fifth-generation Mainer; lived in Maine all her life)
“Oh, yes we do, and they're really big. My sister in Connecticut has, what, seven children, and my sister in the islands has three, and my other sister has one. And all our families and our grandchildren and everything, we all get together on Fourth of July and have a picnic at Sebago Lake, which started out as a big church thing. Our church did it every year, and we've just kept up the tradition.”
“Well, my neighborhood …
Mr. James Mathews On Leisure, Maureen Elgersman Lee
Mr. James Mathews On Leisure, Maureen Elgersman Lee
We Exist Series 4: Quotes
Interviewer: Maureen Elgersman Lee
Interviewee: Mr. James Mathews (age 59; born 1941 in Portland Maine; married with five children; lived in Maine all his life – lived in South Portland for over 26 years)
“Well, when we talk about the Mathews family reunions and also the Fisher family reunions, because they're a part of our family. We all evolved from the Mathews really, and, of course, my name is Mathews. We had a family reunion in Nova Scotia that I went to in 1998. It was July; I think it was the 14th thru the 16th, or something like that, …
Ms. Beverly Bowens On Leisure, Vanessa Saric
Ms. Beverly Bowens On Leisure, Vanessa Saric
We Exist Series 4: Quotes
Interviewer: Vanesa Saric
Interviewee: Ms. Beverly Bowens (born in Maine; age 67; left at 21 years old for about 35 to 40 years and then returned to Maine)
“Actually, I'm a product of my environment. So when I went to New York, I had difficulty getting used to, for instance, going to a party, 8 o'clock. And even though in New York a party starts at eight, no one comes until ten. I go to bed early, and I get up very early. And this is something that I found a little bit different when I was in New York. …
Road Maps - The American Way, Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
Road Maps - The American Way, Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
Osher Map Library Exhibition Catalogs
Road Maps - The American Way.
February 13, 2001 to December 21, 2001
U.S. road maps have always emphasized a proud national history and have promised a glorious future, through the magic of the automobile. So get out the road map to plot your course . . . and don't forget to buy our brand of gas!
Guest Curator - Robert French.