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ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Piscataquis Observer: Thanks to the community, Sponsor the Observer Project completed: “The digital archive maintained by the Thompson Free Library and the Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society is a tremendous resource for our community. And now, we have made it even better by rescanning the Piscataquis Observer collection between 1921 and 1986, replacing badly damaged images with clean ones, […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/19/piscataquis-observer-thanks-to-the-community-sponsor-the-observer-project-completed/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/19/piscataquis-observer-thanks-to-the-community-sponsor-the-observer-project-completed/</a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>ICYMI - From 2016:</p><p>Tuesday Marks 20th Anniversary of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Maine</span></a>’s Worst <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilSpill" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OilSpill</span></a></p><p>Maine Public | By Keith Shortall<br />Published September 27, 2016 at 5:34 PM EDT </p><p>&quot;It was 20 years ago Tuesday that the tanker Julie N crashed int the bridge connecting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PortlandMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PortlandMaine</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthPortlandMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SouthPortlandMaine</span></a>, spilling 180,000 gallons of oil into the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForeRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ForeRiver</span></a> in the worst oil spill in Maine’s history.</p><p>&quot;The spill was contained primarily to the Fore River, but approximately $40 million was spent on cleaning up 14 miles of contaminated <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/shoreline" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>shoreline</span></a>. The Coast Guard said at the time that nearly 80 percent of the spilled oil was recovered. Much of the rest stayed west of the bridge, toward the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/marshes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>marshes</span></a> near the Portland Jetport and away from Casco Bay and the islands.</p><p>&quot;<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PortlandHarbor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PortlandHarbor</span></a> was closed, and fishing and shellfish harvesting was banned in parts of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CascoBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CascoBay</span></a> and the Fore River for more than a month.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.mainepublic.org/environment-and-outdoors/2016-09-27/tuesday-marks-20th-anniversary-of-maines-worst-oil-spill" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mainepublic.org/environment-an</span><span class="invisible">d-outdoors/2016-09-27/tuesday-marks-20th-anniversary-of-maines-worst-oil-spill</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilTankers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OilTankers</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MaineHistory</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MalagaIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MalagaIsland</span></a>: The harrowing history of Maine&#39;s mixed-race community forced from their homes</p><p>February 20, 2023</p><p>Talia Clarke shared the story of Malaga&#39;s Island, a dark chapter in the state&#39;s history. There a mixed-race community was forcibly removed from their homes, some institutionalized and sterilized only to have their ancestor&#39;s bodies later exhumed from their graves.</p><p>&quot;[Maine State archivist Kate McBrien] says around the turn of the 20th century, tourism became the financial focus for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Maine</span></a>.</p><p>&quot;&#39;Maine didn&#39;t want to be known as the home of what they felt was a very different community,&#39; McBrien said. &#39;If there was a black person and a white person marrying... because that was not socially accepted.&#39;</p><p>&quot;A state land agent and attorney general were ordered to investigate the ownership of Malaga Island. Since island residents were not able to provide a deed, the state determined that someone else owned it.</p><p>&quot;&#39;So the state purchased the island and evicted the community because they thought that was how they could fix what they saw as a problem,&#39; McBrien said.&quot;<br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlackHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MaineHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Racism</span></a></p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://www.wmtw.com/article/malaga-island-maine-mixed-race-community-forced-from-homes/42991638" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wmtw.com/article/malaga-island</span><span class="invisible">-maine-mixed-race-community-forced-from-homes/42991638</span></a></p>
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