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Race And Public Policy In Maine: Past, Present, And Future, James Myall

Maine Policy Review

Maine’s bicentennial year is an appropriate moment to reflect on the historical legacy of public policy in Maine. In particular, the impact of historic policy decisions on people of color in the state is widely overlooked, perhaps because of Maine’s historical whiteness. This piece will show that, like the rest of the United States, Maine has a history of state-sanctioned discrimination, the consequences of which resonate today. Policymakers need to understand the harmful legacy of racist public policy in Maine if they are to avoid perpetuating those inequalities. Further, this piece will argue that it is not enough for lawmakers …

Asian American Politics: A Case Study Of Hmong Americans In St. Paul, Mn, Thilee Yost

Honors College

Despite being a relatively new refugee group relocating to the United States during the 1970s and 1980s, Hmong Americans have emerged as a major political influence in St. Paul, Minnesota. With a population of over 68,000 Hmong Americans, St. Paul has been called the Hmong capital of the world. It has a very dense network of Hmong individuals who have proven to be an emerging political force. During the past November 2018 midterms seven, a record number, of Hmong Americans were elected to public office in the Twin Cities area. Since Asian Americans are expected to make up 10% of …

Immigrant Elders: What Can Maine Learn From Other States?, Linda Silka

Maine Policy Review

Maine is not yet home to large numbers of immigrants, but that may soon change. Linda Silka presents lessons from elsewhere about elder immigrants and considers their implications for Maine. She suggests that attention to the topic of immigrant elders will help Maine to create policy and opportunity for all elders.

Public Libraries And The Immigrant Community, Steve Podgajny

Maine Policy Review

This short article describes programs and services to the immigrant community by Maine libraries.

Salt, Vol. 10, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Documenting a Region: Maine in Words and Photographs. Maine’s Ethnic Groups: Part 2 — Franco-Irish-Swedish-Americans. Shanty Irish to lace curtain Irish. That’s what Skip Matson has seen. Still the Greenhorns come, from Galway and the troubled north.

Content
• 3 Nineteen Pine Street Contributors and notes about this issue.
• 5 Maine Journal A Great Northern milltown gets rich quick, but the future looks threatening. More on illiteracy and Emily Kinney.
• 7 Ethnic Groups of Maine Want to know how many Russians live in Maine? And here’s one for you. Blacks outnumbered Maine’s Native Americans two centuries ago. Facts about Maine’s ethnic …

Salt, Vol. 10, No. 1, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

The magazine about the really important people of Maine. Maine’s New and Old Ethnic Groups — First of Two Parts. Kansath Pon is now a Mainer. She takes her place in the ethnic mix begun when Yankees first settled on Wabanaki land.

Content
• 3 Nineteen Pine Street Contributors and notes about this issue.
• 5 Maine Journal A new feature this issue. Who commutes? Most Mainers. Plus a barbershop view of the economy. And BIW expansion.
• 7 Yankees and Other Ethnics Ethnic gounps in Maine-including Yankees-are not part of a homogenious “melting pot,” argues sociologist Peter Rose. They are distinct contributors …

Salt, Vol. 6, No. 3, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

I could never call myself a Yankee. Five Immigrant Experiences. Italians in Portland’s “Little Italy.” French Canadians of Epping. Japanese in Livermore Falls. Russian Colony in Richmond. The Greeks of Biddeford/Saco.

Contents

• 2 Letters to Salt
• 4 Pinch a Penny, Spend a Dime A new column, “The Deacon’s Bench,” by Thomas Bradbury starts in this issue.
• 6 Guest Article: A Boy’s Dream Come True John Chaisson of Lewiston writes SALT’s first guest article about his childhood days in the “big woods.”
• 9 Salt Center for Field Studies This issue of SALT is the first to be published from SALT’s new …

Salt, Vol. 5, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Contents
• 3 ‘I Never Lied in My Life’ Cecil Kelley of Jonesport, Maine, spins a series of outrageous yams. Sample: “Grandmother drank a barrel of rum a day...”
• 16 Jake’s Easter Clam One Easter Sunday, seven-year-old Jake Leach went clamming with his father. John Leach of Kennebunkport, Maine, tells what clamming means to him and why he takes Jake along.
• 24 Christos Anesti! Greek Easter The Greek community in Biddeford, Maine, celebrates Easter with all the traditions of the old country.
• 32 Harvey’s Gone Fishing Harvey Bixby of Cape Porpoise, Maine, would rather fish than eat. He takes Salt fly …

Salt, Vol. 4, No. 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Contents
• 2 Grandfather’s Golden Earring Sailing around Cape Horn in the mid 1800’s was a dangerous feat. The 90-year-old Furbish twins of Kennebunk recall their Grandfather Furbish wore “a thin gold earring in his left ear” as proud proof of the voyage.
• 8 ‘Like It, No Like It-Take It’ Maria Gollaros of Biddeford describes her 60 years working in the fabric mills of New England and her struggles as a young Greek immigrant woman in America.
• 16 Felling a Tree George and Roy Cole fell a giant locust tree in East Kingston, New Hampshire. Father and son continue to log …

Salt Bicentennial Maine, Vol. 3, No. 1 & 2, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

Maine Bicentennial

Contents — From the Sea

• 6 Twelve Miles Off the Mainland Natives of the rocky island of North Haven, Maine tell how they get what they need to survive.
• 14 Goat Island Lighthouse It takes a special kind of person to live on an island alone and tend a lighthouse. The Goat Island lighthouse keeper and his wife describe their life.
• 28 Gill Netting Herbert Hutchins takes Salt out gill netting for the day and we learn how it’s done.
• 34 Ships in Bottles Richard Nickerson of Arundel gives a step by step demonstration of how to construct …