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When It Comes To Diversity, Umaine Could To Better, Anna Foster

University of Maine Racial Justice Collection

It’s Women’s History Month. The month where we all celebrate the strong women in our society who have helped paved the way to get women to where we are now.In the academic world, it wasn’t until 1840 that the first American woman, Catherine Brewer Benson, graduated with an undergraduate degree from Wesleyan Collegein Georgia. It took another 26 years for a black woman to earn a degree, and over 30 years for the first woman to earn a Ph.D.

Salt, Spring 2002, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

SALT Spring 2002.

Contents

• 4 Two Eggs, Toast, Homefries Marcy’s Breakfast and Lunch, a Portland landmark. Thea Okonak, Megan Dalrymple
• 16 Large Animal Veterinarian All creatures great and small, but mostly great. A photo essay. Katie Terrill
• 22 The Odd Fellows Theatre In Buckfield, a family theatre that has sold out 29 of 30 performances. Eric Larson, Brea Walker
• 36 Liz Leddy: Portrait of a Boxer A young woman trains at the Portland Boxing Club. A photo essay. Christine Heinz
• 44 The Witch is In Wicca is a faith and freedom. For Cynthia Collins, the freedom is what makes being …

Salt Omnibus 2001, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

SALT Omnibus 2001.

Contents

• 4 The Song of Objects The art of collecting threads together portraits of four highly individual collectors from Maine.
• 18 Baked Beans in a Pot Almost a million cans of baked beans leave B & M’s Portland plant every week. A photo essay depicts the day-to-day life of the “family” of bean factory workers.
• 26 Bush Piloting in Maine Pilots share their stories of a time when the only means of transportation in northwestern Maine meant navigating by landmarks to fly anything and anyone in and out of the bush.
• 38 Reinventing Eve Two religious leaders …