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Lg Ms 038 Frances Peabody Papers Finding Aid, Katharine Renolds Thomas, Christina E. Walker
Lg Ms 038 Frances Peabody Papers Finding Aid, Katharine Renolds Thomas, Christina E. Walker
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Frannie Peabody was one of Maine's leading AIDS activists. Best known in Maine and nationally for her exceptional leadership in the AIDS epidemic, she also gave significant service on historic preservation, child welfare, and gay rights issues. She was a founder of Portland’s The AIDS Project and of the Frannie Peabody Center (formerly Peabody House), as well as of Greater Portland Landmarks. The Papers contain Peabody's personal papers, including her work with The AIDS Project and bereavement counseling.
Date Range:
1981-1999
Size of Collection:
24.5 ft.
Jud Ms 06 Myer Marcus Interview Finding Aid, Katharine Renolds Thomas
Jud Ms 06 Myer Marcus Interview Finding Aid, Katharine Renolds Thomas
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Myer M. Marcus was born in Portland, Maine in 1914, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants Saul Marcus, a Portland clothier, and his wife Bertha Marcus, nee Goldstein. As a boy he enjoyed spending his free time at the Portland Boys Club on Plum Street. He attended North School and Portland High School, then spent one year at the University of Virginia before transferring to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Marcus earned his LL.B. in 1937 from Boston University School of Law, then returned to Portland to open the Marcus and Marcus law office on Exchange Street with his younger …
Lg Ms 039 Maine Frontrunners Archives Finding Aid, Katharine Renolds Thomas
Lg Ms 039 Maine Frontrunners Archives Finding Aid, Katharine Renolds Thomas
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Maine Frontrunners was founded April Fool’s Day, 1995, inspired by the enthusiastic leadership of the legendary runner John Bean. The group has run Saturday mornings since then, through all kinds of weather. The Maine group is part of International Front Runners, an affiliation of GLBT running/walking clubs that have organized in many of the larger cities around the world. Inspired by Patricia Nell Warren's novel The Front Runner, the first Front Runner club began in San Francisco in 1974, and other FR clubs quickly began forming in the United States and then in Canada and abroad.
Date Range:
1994-2003 …